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MeSH Heading: Cat-Scratch Disease
Tree Number(s): C01.150.252.400.126.100.150; C15.604.315.249
Unique ID: D002372
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002372
Annotation: coord IM with AFIPIA (IM) or BARTONELLA HENSELAE (IM) if appropriate
Scope Note: A self-limiting bacterial infection of the regional lymph nodes caused by AFIPIA felis, a gram-negative bacterium recently identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and by BARTONELLA HENSELAE. It usually arises one or more weeks following a feline scratch, with raised inflammatory nodules at the site of the scratch being the primary symptom.
Entry Version: CAT SCRATCH DIS
Entry Term(s): Bartonella henselae Infection; Cat Scratch Disease; Cat Scratch Fever; Catscratch Disease; Inoculation Lymphoreticulosis; Inoculative Lymphoreticulosis
NLM Classification #: WC 640
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2020/01/16

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

transmission (TM)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Concept UI: M0003611
Scope Note: A self-limiting bacterial infection of the regional lymph nodes caused by AFIPIA felis, a gram-negative bacterium recently identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and by BARTONELLA HENSELAE. It usually arises one or more weeks following a feline scratch, with raised inflammatory nodules at the site of the scratch being the primary symptom.
Terms: Cat-Scratch Disease Preferred Term
Term UI T006866
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID; Inoculation Lymphoreticulosis
Term UI T006867
Date01/01/1975
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Inoculative Lymphoreticulosis
Term UI T006868
Date10/15/1991
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1993); Bartonella henselae Infection
Term UI T000908894
Date10/05/2016
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2018); Cat Scratch Fever
Term UI T750937
Date05/12/2009
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID; Cat Scratch Disease
Term UI T000998314
Date11/20/2019
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2021); Catscratch Disease
Term UI T006869
Date12/07/1977
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX)

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