Galaxy Diagnostics, the One Health Commission, Louisiana One Health in Action (LOHA), and the One Health Student Club at Tulane partnered to present an educational “Barbecue and Bartonella” event for medical students, veterinarians, public health faculty, and other interested parties on March 28th 2019 at the Tulane School of Public Health. Approximately 70 attendees gathered […]
Dr. Breitschwerdt Discusses Bartonella on North Carolina State University Podcast
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). […]
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 […]
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 […]
What are Bacillary Angiomatosis and Bacillary Peliosis?
In a previous post we discussed the relatively short history of scientific recognition of Bartonella species infections (bartonellosis). Chronic Bartonella infection in the United States was only recognized at the end of the 20th century as symptoms began to be seen more frequently in HIV patients. Furthermore, symptoms tended to be more serious in these […]
