Gerber M A, Sedgwick A K, MacAlister T J, Gustafson K B, Ballow M, Tilton R C
Lancet. 1985 Jun 1;1(8440):1236-9. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(85)92311-6.
A highly pleomorphic, gram-positive bacterium was cultured from an excised lymph node of a patient with cat scratch disease (CSD). The organism had morphological forms similar to those of the bacterium observed in Warthin-Starry stains of lymph node sections from CSD patients and may be the aetiological agent of this disease. Electron microscopic examination of lymph node sections from another patient with CSD showed organisms with morphological forms similar to those of the isolated bacterium. Biochemical and physiological analyses of this isolate suggested that it is not a commonly recognised contaminant or human pathogen and that it may be a member of the genus Rothia. This organism appears to resemble the bacterium that was identified as the aetiological agent of Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome, a specific form of CSD, over 70 years ago.
从一名猫抓病（CSD）患者切除的淋巴结中培养出一种高度多形性的革兰氏阳性细菌。该生物体的形态与在CSD患者淋巴结切片的Warthin-Starry染色中观察到的细菌相似，可能是这种疾病的病原体。对另一名CSD患者的淋巴结切片进行电子显微镜检查，发现生物体的形态与分离出的细菌相似。对该分离株的生化和生理分析表明，它不是常见的污染物或人类病原体，可能是罗氏菌属的成员。这种生物体似乎类似于70多年前被确定为Parinaud眼腺综合征（一种特定形式的CSD）病原体的细菌。
