Bartonella henselae AS A PUTATIVE CAUSE OF CONGENITAL CHOLESTASIS

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Paulo Eduardo Neves Ferreira VELHO, Maria Ângela BELLOMO-BRANDÃO, Marina Rovani DRUMMOND, Renata Ferreira MAGALHÃES, Gabriel HESSEL, Maria de Lourdes BARJAS-CASTRO, Cecília Amélia Fazzio ESCANHOELA, Gilda Maria Barbaro DEL NEGRO, Thelma Suely OKAY
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2016
• Subjects: Bartonella; Hepatitis; Cholestasis; Disease Transmission; Infectious; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/s1678-9946201658056; https://doaj.org/article/a7a871d37c1645bca8349d99e9b05385

SUMMARY Severe anemia and cholestatic hepatitis are associated with bartonella infections. A putative vertical Bartonella henselae infection was defined on the basis of ultrastructural and molecular analyses in a three-year-old child with anemia, jaundice and hepatosplenomegaly since birth. Physicians should consider bartonellosis in patients with anemia and hepatitis of unknown origin.