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Volume 12, Number 9—September 2006
Research

Lymph Node Biopsy Specimens and Diagnosis of Cat-scratch Disease

Jean-Marc Rolain*, Hubert Lepidi*, Michel Zanaret†, Jean-Michel Triglia‡, Gérard Michel§, Pascal-Alexandre Thomas¶, Michèle Texereau#, Andreas Stein***, Anette Romaru††, François Eb‡‡, and Didier Raoult*Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France; †Fédération Oto-Rhingo-Laryngologie, Marseille, France; ‡Hôpital Timone Enfant, Marseille, France; §Hôpital d'Enfants de la Timone, Marseille, France; ¶Hôpital Sainte-Marguerite, Marseille, France; #Fédération de Médecine, Niort, France; **Hôpital de la Conception, Marseille, France; ††Laboratoire de Biologie, Niort, France; ‡‡Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens, France

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Table 1

Results of culture and PCR assays of 786 biopsy lymph node specimens*

Diagnosis or infection Positive culture Bartonella- positive PCR 16S rDNA–positive PCR Total
CSD 1 244 122 244
Bartonella quintana 1 1 1 1
Q fever 2 0 3 3
Tularemia 1 0 1 1
Abiotrophia adjacens 2 0 2 2
Actinomyces 1 0 1 1
Pasteurella multocida 2 0 2 2
Mycobacterial infection 54 0 32 54
Staphylococcus aureus 16 0 16 16
Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus 15 0 10 23
Streptococcus pyogenes 10 0 10 10
Fusobacterium spp. 4 0 4 4
Nocardia asteroïdes 1 0 1 1
Propionibacterium acnes 15 0 7 16
Prevotella sp. 1 0 1 1
Clostridium perfringens 1 0 1 1
Tropheryma whipplei 0 0 1 1
Miscellaneous 21 0 21 21
Neoplasm 0 0 0 47
Unknown 0 0 0 350
Total 148 245 236 449

*CSD, cat-scratch disease. Among 244 specimens PCR-positive for B. henselae, 10 showed a concurrent mycobacterial infection and 3 showed a neoplasm.

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