RESUMEN
Information on the epidemiology, clinic and diagnostics of bartonellosis is updated. The importance of bartonellosis lies in the fact that its main risk group embraces patients with immunodeficiencies of different origin, the number of such patients constantly growing. The diagnostics of bartonellosis is insufficiently developed and the research on Bartonella organisms, except for the trunch (Volynia) fever causative agent, is insufficient in our country.
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Infecciones por Bartonella/epidemiología , Bartonella , Enfermedades Transmisibles Emergentes/epidemiología , Ácaros y Garrapatas/microbiología , Animales , Anticuerpos Antibacterianos/sangre , Bartonella/genética , Bartonella/inmunología , Bartonella/aislamiento & purificación , Infecciones por Bartonella/diagnóstico , Infecciones por Bartonella/etiología , Mordeduras y Picaduras/complicaciones , Gatos , Enfermedades Transmisibles Emergentes/diagnóstico , Enfermedades Transmisibles Emergentes/etiología , ADN Bacteriano/genética , Vectores de Enfermedades , Perros , Infecciones por VIH/complicaciones , Humanos , Insectos/microbiología , Reacción en Cadena de la Polimerasa , RoedoresRESUMEN
The review updates knowledge on the taxonomy, bacteriology and genetics of Bartonella as well as pathogenesis of bartonellosis. The role of Bartonella in human pathology, formerly considered to be rather modest, causes now growing anxiety. In this connection Bartonella are now believed to be the causative agents of so-called emerging and re-emerging diseases, i.e. diseases, formerly unknown to man, and diseases, believed to be eradicated and playing at present no important role in human pathology. These microorganisms are a bright example of successes of molecular biology in the detection of microorganisms, as well as in their phylogenetics and systematics.