Galaxy Diagnostics co-founder Dr. Edward B. Breitschwerdt, a research professor at the North Carolina State University (NCSU) College of Veterinary Medicine, earlier this week spoke with the NCSU news podcast Audio Abstract about Bartonella. The audio podcast and a transcript are available on the NCSU website. This podcast serves as an educational resource for […]
Galaxy Diagnostics Scientists Publish Case Study of Bartonella and Sudden-Onset Adolescent Schizophrenia
Galaxy Diagnostics co-founders Edward B. Breitschwerdt and Ricardo G. Maggi and medical director B. Robert Mozayeni, along with consulting physicians and others at the North Carolina State University (NCSU) College of Veterinary Medicine published a clinical case report of Bartonella henselae bloodstream infection (aka cat scratch disease) associated with pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS). […]
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is not the only Rickettsiosis
Rickettsia species cause moderate to severe symptoms ranging from fever to internal hemorrhaging. The symptoms and their severity depend on which species is present and how long the patient has been infected. Like Bartonella and Ehrlichia, Rickettsia species are intracellular bacteria, which means that they can live inside cells in the host. Rocky Mountain spotted […]
Dr. Breitschwerdt’s Thoughts on Galaxy Diagnostics’ 10 Year Anniversary
When I was attending veterinary school in the 1970s, Bartonella was not known to infect animals or humans in North America. Thus, as a young veterinarian, I had never heard of bartonellosis. It would be another 20 years before these bacteria were found in humans with AIDS in cities throughout the United States. Some twenty […]
Are You Aware of Anaplasmosis?
Anaplasmosis is a tick-borne illness that is reported across the globe in areas such as North America, Europe, and China. Known infections in the United States have been on the rise ever since becoming a nationally notifiable disease to the CDC in 2000. Like bartonellosis and Lyme borreliosis, patients with this condition can present with [...]
Suspected Insect and Arthropod Vectors for Bartonella species
Vector-borne diseases like bartonellosis and Lyme borreliosis require the transfer of pathogens from a reservoir to humans by a “competent” vector. A competent vector can acquire, carry, and pass on the living pathogen. The vector is generally an insect or arthropod that picks up the pathogen(s) while feeding from a reservoir species, such as deer […]
