TY - JOUR AU - Sanguinetti-Morelli, Diane AU - Angelakis, Emmanouil AU - Richet, Hervé AU - Davoust, Bernard AU - Rolain, Jean Marc AU - Raoult, Didier T1 - Seasonality of Cat-Scratch Disease, France, 1999–2009 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2011 VL - 17 IS - 4 SP - 705 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Cat-scratch disease is seasonal in the United States and Japan; but no data are available from Europe. To assess the seasonality of the disease in France, we analyzed lymph node biopsy specimens collected during 1999–2009. Most (87.5%) cases occurred during September–April and peaked in December. KW - Seasonality KW - cat-scratch disease KW - cats KW - zoonoses KW - Bartonella henselae KW - bacteria KW - France KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1704.100825 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/4/10-0825_article ER - End of Reference