A case of Bartonella neuroretinitis with macular star diagnosed by clinical, epidemiological, serological, and molecular data: resolution after initiation of antimicrobial therapy

Abstract The differential diagnosis of optic neuritis is broad and varied. We report the case of a 24-year-old Brazilian man who presented with five-week history of fever, malaise, myalgia, severe fatigue, tender right preauricular lymphadenopathy, and acute vision blurring associated with right opt...

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Published in:Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Main Authors: Walter de Araujo Eyer-Silva, Letícia Stéfanie Curvello Wutke, Alexandre de Carvalho Mendes Paiva, Guilherme Almeida Rosa da Silva, Fernando Raphael de Almeida Ferry, Dario José Hart Pontes Signorini, Jonathan Gonçalves de Oliveira, Elba Regina Sampaio Lemos
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2020
Subjects:
Bartonella henselae
Cat scratch disease
Ocular bartonellosis
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Arctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0516-2019
https://doaj.org/article/ec6ca45295c240e48330fc26cc8f52dc
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Summary:Abstract The differential diagnosis of optic neuritis is broad and varied. We report the case of a 24-year-old Brazilian man who presented with five-week history of fever, malaise, myalgia, severe fatigue, tender right preauricular lymphadenopathy, and acute vision blurring associated with right optic disc swelling and exudates in a macular star pattern. His illness developed soon after an infestation of fleas broke out among his cats. Diagnosis of ocular bartonellosis was confirmed by serological and molecular analyses targeting amplification of Bartonella spp. htrA gene. Signs and symptoms only improved after initiation of antimicrobial therapy.

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