Table 1.
Summary of clinical, xenodiagnostic, and laboratory findings in patients and poultry following D. gallinae infestation case.
| Parameters | Humans |
Animals |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient 1 | Patient 2 | Patient 3 | Chicken 1 | Chicken 2 | Chicken 3 | Turkey | |
| General data | |||||||
| Signs of illness | Dermatitis | Not observed | Not observed | Not observed | Not observed | Not observed | Not observed |
| Signs and symptoms | |||||||
| Fever | – | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| Headache | – | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| Myalgia | – | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| Eschar | – | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| Enlarged lymph nodes | – | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| Non-expanding local redness | + | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| Expanding local redness | – | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| Itching sensation at lesion site | – | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| Serological findings in serum collected one day after infestation incident | |||||||
| Anti-Bartonella IgM | – | – | – | N/A | |||
| Anti-Bartonella IgG | – | – | – | ||||
| Anti-Ehrlichia IgM | – | – | – | ||||
| Anti- Ehrlichia IgG | – | – | – | ||||
| Anti-D. gallinae IgE | + (0.097)* | + (0.028)* | + (0.022)* | ||||
| Serological findings in serum collected four weeks after infestation incident | |||||||
| Anti-Bartonella IgM | – | N/A | N/A | ||||
| anti-Bartonella IgG (reactive titer) | + (1:1024)* | ||||||
| Anti-Ehrlichia IgM | – | ||||||
| Anti- Ehrlichia IgG | – | ||||||
| Anti-D. gallinae IgE (O.D. 450 nm) | + (0.071)* | ||||||
| Detection of TBPs | |||||||
| Complete blood | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Capillary blood from lesion | – | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| Platelets | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| D. gallinae pool 1 | Bartonella spp. and Ehrlichia spp. | N/A | |||||
| D. gallinae pool 2 | Bartonella spp. and Ehrlichia spp. | ||||||
| D. gallinae pool 3 | Bartonella spp. and Theileria spp. and Apicomplexa | ||||||
| D. gallinae pool 4 | Bartonella spp. | ||||||
Not analysed (N/A).
Absent or not measured are denoted with (/).
Positive (+).
Negative (−).
O.D. values measured at 450 nm (*).