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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38231321/diagnosis-and-pharmacological-management-of-microscopic-colitis-in-geriatric-care
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ole Haagen Nielsen, Darrell S Pardi
Microscopic colitis, a diagnosis under the umbrella term of inflammatory bowel disease, is a prevalent cause of watery diarrhea, often with symptoms of urgency and bloating, typically observed in older adults aged ≥ 60 years. Its incidence has been reported to exceed those of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease in some geographical areas. Although nonpathognomonic endoscopic abnormalities, including changes of the vascular mucosal pattern; mucosal erythema; edema; nodularity; or mucosal defects, e...
January 17, 2024: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38192503/is-bartonella-sp-infection-relevant-in-hematological-malignancies-in-hiv-negative-patients-a-literature-review
#22
REVIEW
Elisa Nunes Secamilli, Marina Rovani Drummond, Juliana Yumi Massuda Serrano, Rafael Fantelli Stelini, Maria Leticia Cintra, Paulo Eduardo Neves Ferreira Velho
Bartonelloses are diseases caused by Bartonella sp., transmitted to humans by blood sucking arthropod vectors. Clinical presentations include bacillary angiomatosis, cat scratch disease and atypical forms. We performed a review of cases of bartonelloses and hematological malignancies published in HIV-negative patients. Terms used were Bartonella or Bacillary Angiomatosis and Leukemia, Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma, or Cancer. Fifteen cases met our criteria. Clinical presentations included bacillary angiomatosis, chronic fever, chronic lymphadenopathy, osteomyelitis, neuroretinitis, chronic anemia and hepatosplenic peliosis...
2024: Leukemia Research Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38191221/atypical-presentation-of-severe-cat-scratch-disease-suspected-from-patient-history-and-physical-findings
#23
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Riki Takeda, Keigo Kobayashi, Kosuke Kubotsu, Yasuhiro Umekawa
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
January 8, 2024: BMJ Case Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38125733/epidemiology-of-feline-bartonellosis-and-molecular-characteristics-of-bartonella-henselae-in-bangladesh
#24
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ajran Kabir, Chandra Shaker Chouhan, Tasmia Habib, Mahbubul Pratik Siddique, K H M Nazmul Hussain Nazir, A K M Anisur Rahman, Md Amimul Ehsan
Bartonellosis, a neglected vector-borne zoonotic disease transmitted from animals to humans, continues to threaten human and animal health significantly. This study aims to determine the epidemiology of feline bartonellosis and the molecular characteristics of Bartonella spp. in cats. From June 2018 to June 2020, 304 oral swabs were randomly collected from Bangladesh's Dhaka, Mymensingh, and Rajshahi districts. A pre-tested questionnaire was administered to collect data. Oral swabs were subjected to PCR targeting htrA gene to confirm Bartonella spp...
January 2024: Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38096404/pediatric-posterior-infectious-uveitis
#25
REVIEW
André Luiz Land Curi, Alejandra de-la-Torre, Ariel Schlaen, Papdmamalini Mahendradas, Jyortimay Biswas
PURPOSE: To describe the most important cause of infectious posterior uveitis in pediatric patients. METHODS: Review of the literature. RESULTS: The most important causes of infectious uveitis in pediatric patients are: cat-scratch disease, toxocariasis, tuberculosis, viral diseases and toxoplasmosis. Ocular manifestations include retinitis, neuroretinitis, choroidal granulomas, peripheral granulomas and posterior pole granulomas. CONCLUSION: Infectious posterior uveitis is a challenging subject and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of any posterior uveitis in children...
December 2023: Ocular Immunology and Inflammation
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38055380/detection-of-bartonella-bovis-dna-in-blood-samples-from-a-veterinarian-in-mexico
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Jannete Gamboa-Prieto, Anabel Cruz-Romero, José A Jiménez-Hernández, José Rodrigo Ramos-Vázquez, Gerardo G Ballados-González, Dora Romero-Salas, Violeta T Pardío-Sedas, Sandra C Esparza-Gonzalez, Ingeborg Becker, Sokani Sánchez-Montes
The genus Bartonella encompasses 38 validated species of Gram-negative, facultative intracellular bacteria that colonize the endothelial cells and erythrocytes of a wide spectrum of mammals. To date, 12 Bartonella species have been recorded infecting humans, causing diseases of long historical characterization, such as cat scratch fever and trench fever, and emerging bartonellosis that mainly affect animal health professionals. For this reason, this study aimed to report a documented case of Bartonella bovis infecting a veterinarian from Mexico by the amplification, sequencing and phylogenetic reconstruction of the citrate synthase (gltA) and the RNA polymerase beta-subunit (rpoB) genes, and to report the natural course of this infection...
2023: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38053326/unusual-presentation-of-lumbar-surgical-site-infection-a-case-study-of-early-onset-pasteurella-multocida-infection-after-arthrodesis
#27
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Chloé Ducrocq, François Luc, Abdeljalil Zeggay, Martin Petit, Mourad Ould-Slimane
BACKGROUND Infection is a serious surgical complication that significantly increases morbidity rates and health care expenses. Most human Pasteurella multocida infections are soft-tissue infections caused by dog or cat bites. Pasteurella multocida (P. multocida) is present in the oral, nasopharyngeal, and upper respiratory tract microbiota among cats, dogs, and other domestic or wild animals. Here, we report a case of lumbar surgical site infection caused by this bacterium. CASE REPORT A 70-year-old diabetic and overweight woman had a Pasteurella multocida surgical site infection after lumbar arthrodesis carried out for lumbar stenosis associated with spondylolisthesis...
December 6, 2023: American Journal of Case Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38030131/monoclonal-antibody-cetuximab-impairs-matrix-metalloproteinases-2-and-9-epithelial-mesenchymal-transition-and-cell-migration-in-feline-oral-squamous-cell-carcinoma-in-vitro
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gennaro Altamura, Manuela Martano, Anna Matrone, Annunziata Corteggio, Giuseppe Borzacchiello
Feline oral squamous cell carcinoma (FOSCC) is characterised by invasive and metastatic behaviour and is poorly responsive to current treatments, hence the need for new therapeutic strategies. FOSCC shares molecular targets with human head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), among these the epidermal growth factor receptor. Cetuximab is an anti-epidermal growth factor receptor monoclonal antibody employed in the therapy of HNSCC and, interestingly, previous work in vitro suggested that it displays cytostatic and cytotoxic properties also against FOSCC...
November 29, 2023: Veterinary and Comparative Oncology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38021979/furry-fomite-and-facultative-anaerobe-a-unique-case-of-capnocytophaga-canimorsus
#29
Christopher J Peterson, William F Abel, Varsha Reddy, Kyle Pfaff
Capnocytophaga canimorsus infection is frequently associated with dog and cat bites or scratches in patients who have risk factors such as immunosuppression, asplenia, and alcohol abuse. However, rare instances of C. canimorsus  infection in patients without typical risk factors have been reported. Here, we present such a rare and unusual case of C. canimorsus  bacteremia in a patient without animal wounds or risk factors. Chronic sinusitis may have contributed to mucosal disruption and served as an entry point for C...
October 2023: Curēus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37997678/comparison-of%C3%A2-theater-medical-data-store-and%C3%A2-reportable%C3%A2-medical-event-records-to-theater-animal-bite-reports-submissions-2018-2019
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Marc G Knobbe, Brandon J Aden, Hayley R Ashbaugh
INTRODUCTION: This analysis evaluates potential reporting discrepancies of the DD2341 Form (Report of Animal Bite-Potential Rabies Exposure) submitted to a forward-deployed Rabies Advisory Board to the Theater Medical Data Store (TMDS) and Reportable Medical Event (RME) systems to identify reporting gaps that can lead to improved best practices that ensure documentation of Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) of potential rabies exposures into service members (SMs) electronic medical records...
November 23, 2023: Military Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37989328/acute-perimyocarditis-associated-with-bartonella-henselae-infection
#31
JOURNAL ARTICLE
David Gj Cucchi, Annebel Govers, Frank H Janse, Bas M van Dalen
Perimyocarditis involves inflammation of the heart muscle and surrounding tissue, causing reduced left ventricular ejection fraction. Typically viral, but occasionally bacterial, this condition can arise from Bartonella henselae , a rare yet potentially serious pathogen that can lead to cardiac inflammation and subsequent heart failure. Since this bacterium is mainly associated with cat scratch disease-which is self-limiting and has a mild disease course -B. henselae's potential role in cardiac disease is underestimated...
November 21, 2023: BMJ Case Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37936885/injuries-related-to-pets-exotic-animals-and-falconry-in-qatar
#32
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Suha Turkmen, Guillaume Alinier, Amr Mohammed Elmoheen, Alamgir Ahmed Qureshi, Benny Remi Ponappan, Mohamed Bahgat, Rashid Khan, Aftab Azad
INTRODUCTION: Pets and exotic animals are increasingly popular all over the world. Some of these animals may cause injuries to their owners or other people during interactions. Both injuries and systemic infections always present diagnosis and treatment challenges. Emergency physicians´ clinical experience in managing patients with injuries caused by pets and exotic animals, in particular, is limited; hence, we believe that it is a domain to explore in a Middle Eastern country to help raise awareness and provide reminders as to the best evidence-based medical practice...
2023: Qatar Medical Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37931133/simultaneous-application-of-enzyme-and-thermodynamic-constraints-to-metabolic-models-using-an-updated-python-implementation-of-gecko
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jorge Carrasco Muriel, Christopher Long, Nikolaus Sonnenschein
Genome-scale metabolic (GEM) models are knowledge bases of the reactions and metabolites of a particular organism. These GEM models allow for the simulation of the metabolism, for example, calculating growth and production yields-based on the stoichiometry, reaction directionality, and uptake rates of the metabolic network. Over the years, several extensions have been added to take into account other actors in metabolism, going beyond pure stoichiometry. One such extension is enzyme-constrained models, which enable the integration of proteomics data into GEM models containing the necessary k cat values for their enzymes...
October 16, 2023: Microbiology Spectrum
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37922474/atypical-cat-scratch-disease-with-splenic-lesion-mimicking-kawasaki-disease-in-a-healthy-5-year-old-girl
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Minjae Ma, Yoshihiro Aoki, Katsuhiko Kitazawa
BACKGROUND: Atypical cat-scratch disease (CSD) and Kawasaki disease (KD) are differential diagnoses of pediatric febrile illnesses. Diagnosing atypical CSD can be challenging because of its wide range of symptoms. However, its similarity to KD has rarely been addressed. METHODS: We present the case of a 5-year-old girl with atypical CSD and splenic lesions who fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for KD. We also conducted a literature review of previous cases in which CSD was suspected alongside KD and detailed the diagnosis and treatment processes...
October 20, 2023: Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37906753/-septic-shock-originating-from-a-pulmonary-focus-caused-by-pasteurella-multocida-report-of-one-case
#35
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tomás De La Barra, Leonardo Soto, Milena Chiappe, Marcelo Valdés, Pedro Fren, Daniel Ramos, Cristian Padilla, Pablo Arellano, Tomás Regueira
Pasteurella multocida is a gram-negative coccobacillus bacterium found as a commensal in the oropharynx of domestic animals such as cats and dogs and some farm animals. Soft tissue infections and occasionally bacteremia in immunocompromised patients with direct contact with animals are described. We report a 61 year old male with a history of scratches and close contact with domestic cats, with a septic shock originating from a pulmonary focus, requiring mechanical ventilation and vasopressors. Blood cultures disclosed the presence of Pasteurella multocida...
February 2023: Revista Médica de Chile
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37892252/association-between-the-clinical-laboratory-and-ultrasound-characteristics-and-the-etiology-of-peripheral-lymphadenopathy-in-children
#36
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vojko Berce, Nina Rataj, Maja Dorič, Aleksandra Zorko, Tjaša Kolarič
Peripheral lymphadenopathy affects most children at least once in a lifetime and represents a major reason for concern. Therefore, we aimed to identify the most common causes of peripheral lymphadenopathy in hospitalized children and to determine the clinical, laboratory and ultrasound characteristics that enable fast, easy and accurate etiological diagnosis. We performed a cross-sectional study including 139 children who were hospitalized because of peripheral lymphadenopathy. Ultrasound of lymph nodes was performed in 113 (81...
September 23, 2023: Children
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37887726/pasteurella-multocida-infection-in-humans
#37
REVIEW
Marcin Piorunek, Beata Brajer-Luftmann, Jarosław Walkowiak
Pasteurella multocida ( P. multocida ) is an immobile, anaerobic, Gram-negative coccobacillus fermenting bacterium. This pathogen is commonly prevalent in the upper airways of healthy pets, such as cats and dogs, but was also confirmed in domestic cattle, rabbits, pigs, birds, and various wild animals. Infection in humans occurs as a result of biting, scratching, or licking by animals and contact with nasopharyngeal secretions. Inflammation at the site of infection develops within the first day from the injury...
October 1, 2023: Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37885521/neuroretinitis-as-a-complication-of-cat-scratch-disease
#38
Jaycob Avaylon, Kimberly Lau, Kirk Harter, Azaam Mamoor, Reshma Mehendale, Leonard Ranasinghe, Edward Durant, Gurvijay Bains
In this case report, a patient with neuroretinitis from a  Bartonella henselae infection is described, and insights into methods to distinguish this type of case from more common etiologies of optic nerve edema are presented. A 21-year-old female with a history of right monocular vision loss due to amblyopia presented to the emergency department (ED) with occipital headache, fever, dizziness, nasal congestion, and painless blurry vision in the left eye for one day. A lumbar puncture found a slightly high opening pressure but no evidence of meningitis...
September 2023: Curēus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37885394/-pasteurella-multocida-pneumonia-with-hemoptysis-in-an-immunocompetent-case
#39
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Işılay Gökçe Benk Uğur, Elif Seren Tanrıverdi, Mehmet Özgel
Pasteurella species are gram-negative bacilli found in healthy pets' oropharynx and gastrointestinal tract flora. In humans, skin and soft tissue infections develop most frequently with the bite or scratching of animals such as cats or dogs. At the same time, they cause infections in the respiratory tract, mainly in patients with chronic lung disease or immunosuppressive patients. In this case report, a rare case of pneumonia caused by P.multocida bacteria in a patient with bronchiectasis was presented. A young male patient was admitted to the emergency department of our hospital with complaints of hemoptysis, cough with phlegm, and weight loss...
October 2023: Mikrobiyoloji Bülteni
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37851638/efficacy-of-the-feliway%C3%A2-classic-diffuser-in-reducing-undesirable-scratching-in-cats-a-randomised-triple-blind-placebo-controlled-study
#40
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Joana Soares Pereira, Yasemin Salgirli Demirbas, Laurianne Meppiel, Sarah Endersby, Gonçalo da Graça Pereira, Xavier De Jaeger
Scratching the environment is a natural behaviour that cats use for communication and physical maintenance purposes, however when it is carried out on household furniture it is considered unacceptable for some owners and even grounds for relinquishment of cats. The objective of this study was to investigate the efficacy of FELIWAY® Classic Diffuser in reducing undesirable scratching (scratching vertical surfaces indoors other than the scratching post) in cats. A 28 day, randomised, triple-blind, placebo-controlled study with a total of 1060 caregiver-cat dyads was conducted...
2023: PloS One
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