Asymptomatic persistent pulmonary infiltrates in an immunocompetent boy with cat-scratch disease.
We describe here an immunocompetent boy with fever, regional adenopathy, multifocal hepatosplenic granulomas, and high and increasing serum antibody titers for Bartonella henselae in whom diffuse bilateral reticulonodular pulmonary infiltrates developed in the absence of respiratory symptoms.
Marseglia
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GL
Monafo
V
V
Marone
P
P
Meloni
F
F
Martini
A
A
Burgio
G R
GR
D018416:Bartonella henselae; D002372:Cat-Scratch Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*; D008297:Male