10 Bartonella Symptoms
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Bacillary Angiomatosis
Bacillary angiomatosis is a complication of cat scratch fever that primarily occurs in people with weakened immune systems. Bartonella bacteria cause lesions that appear in or under the skin and in bones and other organs.
People undergoing chemotherapy and those with HIV are more likely to be diagnosed with bacillary angiomatosis. This uncommon disease was originally thought to arise only in people with severely weakened immune systems, but it's seen in people with normal immune systems as well.4Cheslok M; Embers M. ‘Human Bartonellosis: An Unprecedented Public Health Problem?’ National Institutes of Health. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6630881,5Akram S; Anwar M; Thandra MK; Rawla P. ‘Bacillary Angiomatosis’ National Institutes of Health. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK448092
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