a case of gangrenous stomatitis following an attack of bacillary dysentery in your correspondence columns. The patient, a boy aged about 3 years, was suffering from bacillary dysentery for about a fortnight before the onset of gangrenous stomatitis. General debility was probably the predisposing cause. It is usually considered that this rare disease occurs during convalescence from acute fevers...

BACKGROUND No data were available on the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of bacillary angiomatosis (BA) in Germany. OBJECTIVE To determine epidemiological and clinical data on HIV-associated BA. METHODS A chart review of all BA cases between 1990 and 1998 was performed in 23 German AIDS treatment units. RESULTS A total of 21 cases of BA was diagnosed. During this period, the ...

Skeletal-extraskeletal angiomatosis is defined as a benign vascular proliferation involving the medullary cavity of bone and at least one other type of tissue. It has also been known as cystic angiomatosis in which multiple cystic lesions are scattered diffusely throughout the skeleton often with similar angiomatous changes in other tissues, usually the spleen. A case of skeletal angiomatosis i...

Bartonella species cause serious human infections globally, including bacillary angiomatosis, Oroya fever, trench fever, and endocarditis. We describe a patient who had fever and splenomegaly after traveling to Peru and also had bacteremia from an organism that resembled Bartonella bacilliformis, the causative agent of Oroya fever, which is endemic to Peru. However, genetic analyses revealed th...

Clinical characteristics associated with bacillary angiomatosis and bacillary peliosis (BAP) in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection were evaluated in a case-control study; 42 case-patients and 84 controls were matched by clinical care institution. Case-patients presented with fever (temperature, > 37.8 degrees C; 93%), a median CD4 lymphocyte count of 21/mm3, cutaneous or...

Cat scratch disease (CSD) is caused by a bacterial infection due to Bartonella henselae and associated with young cats kittens. CSD commonly occurs as regional lymphadenitis in the setting of subacute lymphadenopathy predominantly children adults. The prognosis for immunocompetent patients favorable complete recovery, however, immunocompromised adults can progress life-threatening complications...

Bartonella henselae causes severe disease in immunocompromised individuals. B. henselae was isolated from 12 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals with bacillary angiomatosis and/or peliosis hepatis and from their 15 cat contacts. Specific associations between the 2 B. henselae genotypes, individual pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns, and different clinical syndr...