hi Jodie
i have been researching Bartonella in the scientific literature and in the Lyme literate doctors literature extensively for the last few years
unfortunately the kind of in depth species specific data you are looking for doesn't yet exists in any great detail at this point in time.
what i posted about
B. Elizabethae in your other thread is about
the level of what is known about
that particular species.
very rough associations with certain animals - rodents, cats, dogs, in this case
very rough associations with certain conditions - but nothing that really stands out
this group of organisms were essentially unknown and almost totally unresearched until the 1980's after they started to turn up in AIDS patients and the known number of species of bartonella started to expand - and from there we gradually started to understand their pathology etc
but 40 years is a relatively short time in medical research when it comes to understanding complex diseases - and so there are many more gaps than complete knowledge at this stage.
today there are around 45 species known in the genus bartonella at this stage - with more being found every year - and about
half of which are known to cause human illness
the bartonella species which is most researched is B. Henselae and this is effectively the genus defining species.
all of the others including B. Elizabethae, are assumed, and so far proving, to be very similar in terms of symptoms, associated conditions, transmission, treatment etc etc (with a couple of possible exceptions that are genetically less similar - and are also thought to be very rare in the developed world).
as is always the case clinical medicine - as practiced by Infectious disease doctors - is then at least 20 yeas behind the forefront of research into the microbiology of emerging species like this - and this is the reason many ID doctors still see bartonella as purely a self resolving febrile illness - and not a chronic one - as that's pretty much where the research was 20-30 years ago when they were trained( unless a person had AIDS, their spleen removed or an organ transplant).
anyway the long an the short of it is that B. Elizabethae infection is treated the same way as other bartonella species. The symptoms pattern is as much, or more, dependent on the host response (driven by reactions of the individuals unique immune system) as it is the species that is involved.
There is no official standard of care in the western world for chronic Bartonellosis - but there are a number of LLMD's who are focussed on it and publish their protocols - and a few research groups around the world that are doing in depth microbiology and in vitro drug trials on it.
again you will find 90% of the research is done on B Henselae - but again - so far, for all of the common species that are found in humans in the west - what is found here is equally applicable.
you are right to take interest in bartonella as an important co-infection - some of the more recent LLMD publications indicate that bartonella may - at least in some subset of Lyme patients - be the most difficult infection to clear (compared to Lyme and babesiosis).
the best primer available on bartonella - is this video by one of the worlds most respected researchers in bartonella - and a LLMD who specialises in treating it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njywmmpjikuany studies by these authors are also well worth a read