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The National Veterinary Laboratory is the oldest private veterinary diagnostic laboratory in the United States. We are a specialty veterinary diagnostic laboratory and provide tests for the feline leukemia virus (FeLV), the cat scratch disease bacteria, Bartonella, and the feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV). Please click on a link below to open up the PDF file.

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Bartonella (Cat Scratch Disease Bacteria)
References:
Experimental Induced Bartonella Diseases of Cats

1. Greene, CE, McDermott, M, Jameson, PH, Atkins, CL, and Marks, AM: Bartonella henselae infection in cats: evaluation during primary infection, treatment, and rechallenge infection. J Clin Microbiol 34:1682-1685, 1996.

2. Guptill L, et al. Experimental infection of young specific pathogen-free cats with Bartonella henselae. J Infect Dis 176:206-216, 1997.

3. Kordick DL et al.: Clinical and pathologic evaluation of chronic Bartonella henselae or Bartonella clarridgeiae infection in cats. J Clin Microbiol 37:1536-1547, 1999.

4. O’Reilly, KL et al.: Acute clinical disease in cats following infection with a pathogenic strain of Bartonella henselae (LSU16). Infect Immun 67:3066-3072, 1999.

5. Mikolajczyk MG, O'Reilly KL: Clinical disease in kittens inoculated with a pathogenic strain of Bartonella henselae. Am J Vet Res 61:375-379, 2000.

6. O’Reilly KL et al.: Passive antibody to Bartonella henselae protects against clinical disease following homologous challenge but does not prevent bacteremia in cats. Infect Immun 69:1880-1882, 2001.