Cat scratch disease: the rare role of Afipia felis.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on September 01, 1998

Authors

M Giladi1, B Avidor, Y Kletter, S Abulafia, L N Slater, D F Welch, D J Brenner, A G Steigerwalt, A M Whitney, M Ephros

Author Affiliations

1: The Bernard Pridan Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases, Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel. giladi@tasmc.health.gov.il

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