Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2011)

Seasonality of Cat-Scratch Disease, France, 1999–2009

  • Diane Sanguinetti-Morelli,
  • Emmanouil Angelakis,
  • Hervé Richet,
  • Bernard Davoust,
  • Jean Marc Rolain,
  • Didier Raoult

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1704.100825
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 4
pp. 705 – 707

Abstract

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Cat-scratch disease is seasonal in the United States and Japan; but no data are available from Europe. To assess the seasonality of the disease in France, we analyzed lymph node biopsy specimens collected during 1999–2009. Most (87.5%) cases occurred during September–April and peaked in December.

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