Neurology
New tick-spread disease spurs education campaign
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, September 10th, 2002
Now there is a new wrinkle with this often hard to diagnose disease: some patients may actually have cat scratch disease, an infection caused by the bacterium Bartonella henselae.
This is important because this may be a new emerging tick-borne infection that can mimic seronegative or chronic Lyme disease, yet its treatment requires different and sometimes multiple antibiotics.
Eli Mordechai, PhD, one of the first researchers to study tick-borne cat scratch disease, recently announced his research on 126 New Jersey...
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