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Volume 24, Number 5—May 2018
Dispatch

Characterization of Clinical Isolates of Bartonella henselae Strains, South Korea

Hea Yoon Kwon1, Young Kyoung Park1, Sun Myoung Lee, Ji Hyeon Baek, Jae-Seung Kang, Moon-Hyun Chung, Eun Ji Kim, and Jin-Soo LeeComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Inha University School of Medicine, Incheon, South Korea (H.Y. Kwon, Y.K. Park, S.M. Lee, J.H. Baek, J.-S. Kang, E.J. Kim, J.-S. Lee); Jeju National University, Jeju, South Korea (M.-H. Chung)

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Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of 5 case-patients whose serum sample cultures revealed the presence of Bartonella henselae, South Korea*

Characteristic Case-patient 1 Case-patient 2 Case-patient 3 Case-patient 4 (5) Case-patient 5 (4)
Age, y/sex
 22/M
 40/F
 52/F
 42/M
 73/F
Clinical symptoms
 Inguinal LAP, rash
 Fever, myalgia
 Febrile sense, left flank pain
 Rash, fever, myalgia
 Fever, general weakness
Lymphadenopathy
 External iliac chain, inguinal area, supraclavicular area
 Left neck level IV, V
 Right neck II, III, VA
 Right supraclavicular area
 None
Leukocytes, cells/µL
 10,920
 6,130
 8,180
 19,260
 5,120
AST/ALT, IU/dL
 132/270
 107/51
 30/16
 212/246
 47/56
ESR,mm/h/CRP, mg/dL
 21/3.93
 44/5.5
 4/0.14
 25/12.9
 22/13.16
Treatment
 Third-generation cephalosporin, doxycycline
 Levofloxacin, metronidazole, third-generation cephalosporin and doxycycline
 Third-generation cephalosporin, minocycline, metronidazole
 Doxycycline, changed to minocycline
 Third-generation cephalosporin, doxycycline
B. henselae IgG titer
 1:160
 1:640
 1:160
 1:1,280
 1:160
Pets
 None
 None
 None
 None
 None
Co-occurring conditions
 None
 Pulmonary tuberculosis
 None
 None
 None
*ALT, alanine aminotransferase; AST, aspartate aminotransferase; CRP, C-reactive protein; ESR, erythrocyte sedimentation rate.

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