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The Basics of Serology

Reading a diagnostic company’s menu can often feel like interpreting another language. The commonly used name of an infection may not be listed, and the scientific name of the pathogen may not be familiar (e.g., Lyme disease vs. Borrelia burgdorferi). To make things more difficult, acronyms for the testing methods can seem like randomly grouped [...]

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What are lymph nodes? How do they respond to a Bartonella species infection?

Lymph nodes have been called the “upper management” of the immune system by journalist Matt Richtel. Some of the more impressive aspects of the immune system, such as the ability to recognize pathogens that may have been encountered years earlier, occur in the lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are scattered throughout the body. Some are as […]

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Don’t Let Bartonella Come Between the Human-Animal Bond

A common misconception regarding Bartonella henselae infection, sometimes known as cat scratch disease (CSD), is that cats are the “bad guy” in the situation. Cats and other animals have been a part of human life for millennia and have documented positive effects on mental and physical wellness. Cats are natural reservoirs for Bartonella henselae, and […]

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Vector-Borne Disease and Skin: Your First Layer of Defense

Skin is the largest human organ. It is also the first place that flea and tick-borne pathogens encounter the human immune system. While some skin symptoms are signature markers for specific pathogens or families of pathogens, others provide hard-to-interpret clues that can be linked to a wide variety of diseases. Lyme borreliosis and bartonellosis are […]

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How Vector-Borne Diseases Impact Heart Health

Both bartonellosis and Lyme disease are associated with dangerous heart conditions that can be fatal in some cases. According to the CDC, 11 cases of fatal Lyme carditis have been reported between 1985 and 2019, however, researchers suspect there are more undetected cases. The heart has three critical aspects that can be affected by disease: […]

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