TY - JOUR AU - Kwon, Hea Yoon AU - Park, Young Kyoung AU - Lee, Sun Myoung AU - Baek, Ji Hyeon AU - Kang, Jae-Seung AU - Chung, Moon-Hyun AU - Kim, Eun Ji AU - Lee, Jin-Soo T1 - Characterization of Clinical Isolates of Bartonella henselae Strains, South Korea T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2018 VL - 24 IS - 5 SP - 912 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Bartonella henselae, a gram-negative bacterium, is a common causative agent of zoonotic infections. We report 5 culture-proven cases of B. henselae infection in South Korea. By alignment of the 16S rRNA sequences and multilocus sequencing typing analysis, we identified all isolates as B. henselae Houston-1 strain, which belongs to sequence type 1. KW - Bartonella henselae KW - Bartonella infection KW - cat-scratch disease KW - genetic analysis KW - bacteria KW - zoonoses KW - South Korea DO - 10.3201/eid2405.171497 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/24/5/17-1497_article ER - End of Reference