title: Cat-scratch disease with severe pleuritis in a 6-year-old girl.
abstract: We present the case of a 6-year-old girl with cat-scratch disease (CSD), who developed severe pleuritis without lymphadenitis. Bartonella henselae DNA was detected on real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis of whole blood. This is the first report of CSD diagnosed on real-time PCR using whole blood.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Pediatrics.
authors.forename: Sasagu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.affiliation: Departments of Pediatrics.
authors.forename: Shunji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.affiliation: Departments of Basic Laboratory Science, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Masashi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yanagihara
authors.affiliation: Departments of Pediatrics.
authors.forename: Hirofumi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.affiliation: Departments of Pediatrics.
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsushige
authors.affiliation: Departments of Basic Laboratory Science, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Hidehiro
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tsuneoka
authors.affiliation: Departments of Pediatrics.|Department of Pediatrics, Tsudumigaura Medical Center for Children with Disabilities, Yamaguchi, Japan.
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ichiyama
authors.affiliation: Departments of Pediatrics.
authors.forename: Shouichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ohga
mesh_terms: D018416:Bartonella henselae / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002372:Cat-Scratch Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology; D002648:Child; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010998:Pleurisy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D060888:Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial
keywords: Bartonella henselae; cat-scratch disease; pleuritis; real-time polymerase chain reaction