Title |
Co-infection with Anaplasma platys, Bartonella henselae and Candidatus Mycoplasma haematoparvum in a veterinarian
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Published in |
Parasites & Vectors, April 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1756-3305-6-103 |
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Authors |
Ricardo G Maggi, Patricia E Mascarelli, Lauren N Havenga, Vinny Naidoo, Edward B Breitschwerdt |
Abstract |
During a two year period, a 27-year-old female veterinarian experienced migraine headaches, seizures, including status epilepticus, and other neurological and neurocognitive abnormalities. Prior to and during her illness, she had been actively involved in hospital-based work treating domestic animals, primarily cats and dogs, in Grenada and Ireland and anatomical research requiring the dissection of wild animals (including lions, giraffe, rabbits, mongoose, and other animals), mostly in South Africa. The woman reported contact with fleas, ticks, lice, biting flies, mosquitoes, spiders and mites and had also been scratched or bitten by dogs, cats, birds, horses, reptiles, rabbits and rodents. Prior diagnostic testing resulted in findings that were inconclusive or within normal reference ranges and no etiological diagnosis had been obtained to explain the patient's symptoms. |
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United States | 1 | 11% |
Netherlands | 1 | 11% |
United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |
Unknown | 6 | 67% |
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Members of the public | 8 | 89% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 11% |
Mendeley readers
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Brazil | 2 | 1% |
United States | 1 | <1% |
Unknown | 179 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
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Student > Master | 38 | 21% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 10% |
Researcher | 16 | 9% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 7% |
Other | 12 | 7% |
Other | 43 | 24% |
Unknown | 41 | 23% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 41 | 23% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 33 | 18% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 20 | 11% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 16 | 9% |
Immunology and Microbiology | 5 | 3% |
Other | 18 | 10% |
Unknown | 49 | 27% |