cat scratch disease


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cat scratch disease

[′kat ¦skrach di‚zēz]
(medicine)
A benign systematic illness in humans characterized by malaise, fever, and a granulomatous lymphadenitis; the causative organism has not been identified. Also known as benign lymphoreticulosis.
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Public Health Service has identified five zoonoses of particular concern that immunocompromised children can pick up from animals: salmonellosis, campylobacteriosis, bacillary angiomatosis (Bartonella henselae, or cat scratch disease), cryptosporidiosis, and toxoplasmosis.
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On August 14, 1994, the Broward County Public Health Unit of the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services was notified of three children from Pompano Beach who were hospitalized with encephalitis attributed to cat scratch disease (CSD).
Encephalitis associated with cat scratch disease - Broward and Palm Beach Counties, Florida, 1994

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