Breitschwerdt Edward B, Maggi Ricardo G, Chomel Bruno B, Lappin Michael R
Department of Clinical Sciences, Center for Comparative Medicine and Translational Research, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA.
J Vet Emerg Crit Care (San Antonio). 2010 Feb;20(1):8-30. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-4431.2009.00496.x.
To provide a review of clinically relevant observations related to Bartonella species as emerging pathogens in veterinary and human medicine.
Literature as cited in PubMed and as generated by each of the authors who have contributed to various aspects of the clinical understanding of bartonellosis.
Important historical and recent publications illustrating the evolving role of animal reservoirs as a source of human infection.
Comprehensive review of the veterinary literature.
In addition to inducing life-threatening illnesses, such as endocarditis, myocarditis, and meningoencephalitis and contributing to chronic debilitating disease, such as arthritis, osteomyelitis, and granulomatous inflammation in cats, dogs, and potentially other animal species; pets and wildlife species can serve as persistently infected reservoir hosts for the transmission of Bartonella spp. infection to veterinary professionals and others with direct animal contact.
综述与巴尔通体属作为兽医和人类医学中新兴病原体相关的临床相关观察结果。
PubMed中引用的文献以及对巴尔通体病临床理解的各个方面做出贡献的每位作者所提供的文献。
重要的历史和近期出版物，阐明动物宿主作为人类感染源的不断演变的作用。
对兽医文献的全面综述。
除了引发危及生命的疾病，如心内膜炎、心肌炎和脑膜脑炎，并导致慢性衰弱性疾病，如猫、狗以及其他可能动物物种的关节炎、骨髓炎和肉芽肿性炎症外；宠物和野生动物物种可作为持续感染的宿主，将巴尔通体属感染传播给兽医专业人员和其他直接接触动物的人员。
