Bartonella infections in cats and dogs including zoonotic aspects
Álvarez-Fernández, Alejandra (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animals)
Breitschwerdt, Edward (North Carolina State University. Department of Clinical Sciences)
Solano Gallego, Laia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Medicina i Cirurgia Animals)

Date:	2018
Abstract:	Bartonellosis is a vector-borne zoonotic disease with worldwide distribution that can infect humans and a large number of mammals including small companion animals (cats and dogs). In recent years, an increasing number of studies from around the world have reported Bartonella infections, although publications have predominantly focused on the North American perspective. Currently, clinico-pathological data from Europe are more limited, suggesting that bartonellosis may be an infrequent or underdiagnosed infectious disease in cats and dogs. Research is needed to confirm or exclude Bartonella infection as a cause of a spectrum of feline and canine diseases. Bartonella spp. can cause acute or chronic infections in cats, dogs and humans. On a comparative medical basis, different clinical manifestations, such as periods of intermittent fever, granulomatous inflammation involving the heart, liver, lymph nodes and other tissues, endocarditis, bacillary angiomatosis, peliosis hepatis, uveitis and vasoproliferative tumors have been reported in cats, dogs and humans. The purpose of this review is to provide an update and European perspective on Bartonella infections in cats and dogs, including clinical, diagnostic, epidemiological, pathological, treatment and zoonotic aspects.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Bartonella ; Dog ; Cat ; Europe ; Zoonosis
Published in:	Parasites & vectors, Vol. 11 (december 2018) , ISSN 1756-3305

DOI: 10.1186/s13071-018-3152-6
PMID: 30514361

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