Vector-Borne Disease and Skin: Your First Layer of Defense

Skin is the largest human organ. It is also the first place that flea and tick-borne pathogens encounter the human immune system. While some skin symptoms are signature markers for specific pathogens or families of pathogens, others provide hard-to-interpret clues that can be linked to a wide variety of diseases. Lyme borreliosis and bartonellosis are… Continue reading Vector-Borne Disease and Skin: Your First Layer of Defense

From Cat Scratch Disease to Bartonellosis

Bartonellosis is a term used to encompass all infections caused by pathogenic Bartonella species. Bartonella are emerging, flea-borne bacteria that

What is Bartonellosis?

Bartonellosis is an infectious disease caused by bacteria in the genus Bartonella. Bartonellosis causes similar disease manifestations in cats, dogs,