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News and Articles on Bartonella quintana
New, Possibly Deadly Bacteria Discovered Jun 9, 2007
The new species, named Bartonella rochalimae, is related to the microbe (Bartonella quintana) that attacked thousands of solders during World War I and became known as trench fever. It is also related to a bacterium that causes cat scratch disease. (Newsmax)
SAN FRANCISCOPeru trekker's mystery bug is new to science Jun 8, 2007
"We found that the Bartonella cases among HIV patients were just the tip of the iceberg,'' Koehler said. Once thought rare, there are now 24,000 case of cat scratch fever diagnosed in the United States every year. AIDS patients also were afflicted by Bartonella quintana, the trench fever bacteria carried by body lice. Although no soldiers died of the disease during World War I, it caused such excruciating pain in their legs that they had to be sent back from the front lines. The bug responsible... (San Francisco Chronicle)
New bacterium discovered -- related to cause of trench fever Jun 7, 2007
A UCSF infectious disease team, in collaboration with colleagues from other institutions, found that the new microbe is genetically similar to one spread by body lice in the trenches during World War I. That bacterium, called Bartonella quintana, caused a disease known as trench fever, and debilitated tens of thousands of soldiers with severe leg and back pain and recurrent fevers. The new species, recently named Bartonella rochalimae, is also closely related to the bacterium identified about 10... (EurekAlert!)
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