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Provedor de dados: | 55
País: | Brazil
Título: | Cat scratch disease complicated with aseptic meningitis and neuroretinitis
Autores: | Pinto Jr.,Vitor Laerte; Curi,André Land; Pinto,Adriana da Silva; Nunes,Estevão Portela; Teixeira,Maria de Lourdes Benamor; Rozental,Tatiana; Favacho,Alexsandra Rodrigues; Lemos,Elba Regina Sampaio de; Bóia,Márcio Neves.
Data: | 2008-04-01
Ano: | 2008
Palavras-chave: | Cat scratch disease; Bartonella henselae; Aseptic meningitis.
Resumo: | Cat scratch disease (CSD) is a self limited condition characterized by fever, lymph node enlargement and less often eye involvement. Central nervous system involvement by Bartonella henselae infection is possibly an important cause of morbidity; its role as an agent of aseptic meningitis is unknown. We report a case of a 40 years-old man with CSD accompanied by aseptic meningitis and neuroretinitis. Serum indirect immmunofluorescence (IFI) assays for B. henselae were positive and the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis showed mononuclear pleocytosis and increased level of protein. Serological tests for other etiologies were negative. The patient responded well to antibiotic therapy with oral doxycicline plus rifampin and in the 12th day of hospitalization evolved to total regression of the headache and partial regression of the visual loss. Clinicians should consider CSD as a differential diagnosis when assessing previously healthy patients with aseptic meningitis associated with regional lymphadenopathy and epidemiological history of feline contact.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702008000200013
Editor: | Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
Relação: | 10.1590/S1413-86702008000200013
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.12 n.2 2008
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess