Bartonella

This article is about the bacteria. For the disease, see Bartonellosis.

Bartonella is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria. It is the only genus in the family Bartonellaceae.[2][3] Facultative intracellular parasites, Bartonella species can infect healthy people, but are considered especially important as opportunistic pathogens.[4] Bartonella species are transmitted by vectors such as ticks, fleas, sand flies, and mosquitoes. At least eight Bartonella species or subspecies are known to infect humans.[5]

Bartonella henselae is the organism responsible for cat scratch disease.

History

Bartonella species have been infecting humans for thousands of years, as demonstrated by Bartonella quintana DNA in a 4000-year-old tooth.[6] The genus is named for Alberto Leonardo Barton Thompson (1871–October 26, 1950), a Peruvian scientist born in Argentina.

Infection cycle

The currently accepted model explaining the infection cycle holds that the transmitting vectors are blood-sucking arthropods and the reservoir hosts are mammals. Immediately after infection, the bacteria colonize a primary niche, the endothelial cells. Every five days, some of the Bartonella bacteria in the endothelial cells are released into the blood stream, where they infect erythrocytes. The bacteria then invade a phagosomal membrane inside the erythrocytes, where they multiply until they reach a critical population density. At this point, they simply wait until they are taken up with the erythrocytes by a blood-sucking arthropod.

Though some studies have found "no definitive evidence of transmission by a tick to a vertebrate host," [7][8] Bartonella species are well-known to be transmissible to both animals and humans through various other vectors, such as fleas, lice, and sand flies.[9] Recent studies have shown a strong correlation between tick exposure and bartonellosis,[9][10] including human bartonellosis. Bartonella bacteria are associated with cat-scratch disease, but a study in 2010 concluded, "Clinicians should be aware that . . . a history of an animal scratch or bite is not necessary for disease transmission." [11] All current Bartonella species identified in canines are human pathogens.[12]

Pathophysiology

Bartonella infections are remarkable in the wide range of symptoms they can produce. The course of the diseases (acute or chronic) and the underlying pathologies are highly variable.[13]

Bartonella pathophysiology in humans
Species Human reservoir or
incidental host? 		Animal
reservoir 		Pathophysiology Distribution
B. bacilliformis Reservoir Causes Carrion's disease (Oroya fever, Verruga peruana) Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia
B. quintana Reservoir Causes trench fever, bacillary angiomatosis, and endocarditis Worldwide
B. clarridgeiae Incidental Domestic cat Cat scratch disease
B. elizabethae Incidental Rat Endocarditis
B. grahamii Incidental Mouse Endocarditis and neuroretinitis
B. henselae Incidental Domestic cat Cat scratch disease, bacillary angiomatosis, peliosis hepatis, endocarditis, bacteremia with fever, and neuroretinitis Worldwide
B. koehlerae Incidental Domestic cat
B. naantaliensis Reservoir Myotis daubentonii
B. vinsonii Incidental Mouse, dog, domestic cat
B. washoensis Incidental Squirrel Myocarditis
B. rochalimae Incidental Unknown Carrion's disease-like symptoms
References:[14][15][16][17]

Treatment

Treatment is dependent on which species or strain of Bartonella is found in a given patient. While Bartonella species are susceptible to a number of standard antibiotics in vitro — macrolides and tetracycline, for example — the efficacy of antibiotic treatment in immunocompetent individuals is uncertain.[13] Immunocompromised patients should be treated with antibiotics because they are particularly susceptible to systemic disease and bacteremia. Drugs of particular effectiveness include trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, gentamicin, ciprofloxacin, and rifampin; B. henselae is generally resistant to penicillin, amoxicillin, and nafcillin.[13]

Epidemiology

Homeless intravenous drug users are at high risk for Bartonella infections, particularly B. elizabethae. B. elizabethae seropositivity rates in this population range from 12.5% in Los Angeles,[18] to 33% in Baltimore, Maryland,[19] 46% in New York City,[20] and 39% in Sweden.[21]

References

  1. 1 2 "List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature". Retrieved 28 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Brenner, D. J.; O'Connor, S. P.; Winkler, H. H.; Steigerwalt, A. G. (1993). "Proposals To Unify the Genera Bartonella and Rochalimaea, with Descriptions of Bartonella quintana comb. nov., Bartonella vinsonii comb. nov., Bartonella henselae comb. nov., and Bartonella elizabethae comb. nov., and To Remove the Family Bartonellaceae from the Order Rickettsiales". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 43 (4): 777–786. doi:10.1099/00207713-43-4-777. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 8240958.
  3. ↑ Peters, D.; R. Wigand (1955). "Bartonellaceae". Bacteriol. Rev. 19 (3): 150–159.
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  5. ↑ Chomel BB, Boulouis HJ (2005). "Zoonoses dues aux bactéries du genre Bartonella: nouveaux réservoirs? nouveaux vecteurs?" [Zoonotic diseases caused by bacteria of the genus Bartonella: new reservoirs? new vectors?] (PDF). Bull. Acad. Natl. Med. (in French) 189 (3): 465–77; discussion 477–80. PMID 16149211.
  6. ↑ Drancourt M, Tran-Hung L, Courtin J, Lumley H, Raoult D (2005). "Bartonella quintana in a 4000-year-old human tooth". J. Infect. Dis. 191 (4): 607–11. doi:10.1086/427041. PMID 15655785.
  7. ↑ Angelakis E, Billeter SA, Breitschwerdt EB, Chomel BB, Raoult D (March 2010). "Potential for tick-borne bartonellosis". Emerg Infect Dis 16 (3): 385–91. doi:10.3201/eid1603.091685. PMC 3322042. PMID 20202411.
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  9. 1 2 Billeter SA, Levy MG, Chomel BB, Breitschwerdt EB (Mar 2008). "Vector transmission of Bartonella species with emphasis on the potential for tick transmission". Med Vet Entomol 22 (1): 1–15. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2915.2008.00713.x. PMID 18380649.
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  13. 1 2 3 Rolain JM, Brouqui P, Koehler JE, Maguina C, Dolan MJ, Raoult D (2004). "Recommendations for treatment of human infections caused by Bartonella species". Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 48 (6): 1921–33. doi:10.1128/AAC.48.6.1921-1933.2004. PMC 415619. PMID 15155180.
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  19. ↑ Comer JA, Flynn C, Regnery RL, Vlahov D, Childs JE (1996). "Antibodies to Bartonella species in inner-city intravenous drug users in Baltimore, Md". Arch. Intern. Med. 156 (21): 2491–5. doi:10.1001/archinte.156.21.2491. PMID 8944742.
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