Table 4. Geographic origin, host species and clinical source of B. henselae isolates.

Country	Cat	Human			Total	Isolate obtained from/reference
		CSD	bacteremia, BAa	unknown
Australia	17	13			30	J. Iredell [22]
Czech Republic	2				2	O. Melter [32]
Denmark	3				3	R. Birtles
France	16	1			17	H-J. Boulouis, P-E. Fournier, Y. Piémont [12], [33]
Germany	49		1		50	our group, A. Sander, D. Schimmel [13], [20], [34]
Israel	9	3			12	M. Giladi
Italy	11				11	M. Fabbi [35]
Netherlands	5				5	A. Bergmans [14]
Sweden	2				2	E. Hjelm
Switzerland	1				1	P-E. Fournier [29]
UK	20				20	R. Birtles [36]
USA	25	1	3	2	31	B. Anderson, L. Guptill [7], [8], [37]
Total	158	18	4		182

^aBA, bacillary angiomatosis