running wild said...
Girlie - Thanks, but please do not take a lot of time on it. You have enough going on. I search some online but did not find what I was looking for with Buhner.
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No worries. I'm typing it quickly, so please excuse any typos...lol.
There's 3 places that he mentions it:
1) "In a number of populations, for instance in medical patients with fever of unknown origin (FUO), newer research has found that bartonella is a common cause. One study in San Francisco, California, hospital testing 382 patients with FUO found that in 18 percent the cause was a bartonella infection. Various studies have found that anywhere from 5 to 20 percent of FUO patients are positive for bartonella."
2) "B. Henselae is the most commonly known of the disease-causing bartonellas...... "
"Other common symptoms are fever of unknown origin (FUO), hepatosplenic abscesses, bacteria, neuroretinitis, photophobia, severe fatigue, muscle pain, reactive arthritis, Kikuchi's disease, osteomyelitis, bacillary angiomatosis, pelisses hepatic, erythema nodosum, skin lesions, endocarditis, encephalopathy, headache, ataxia, memory loss, paresthesia, aseptic meningitis, meningoradiculoneuritis, panniculitis, dementia, acute psychiatric symptoms, anxiety, severe depression, brain fog, difficult thinking and articulation, schizophrenic-like mental function. Bone pain may be severe and is common in the sole of the foot."
He goes on to write that B. quintana causes FUO as well.
3) " It is somewhat common with bartonella infection to have a chronic low-grade fever that coms and goes. It is usually longer than four weeks in duration, is accompanied by no diagnostic signs or symptoms of obvious disease, and normal falls within 100 to 102 degrees F. The fevers are usually accompanied by headache, malaise, listlessness, weight loss, and, sometimes, anorexia. Recent studies show that bartonella is the third leading cause of FUO. In about
one-third of the cases hepatosplenic involvement is present."