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TABLE 3.

Age on admission or death, gender, clinical presentation, cat contact, demographic data, specimen source, diagnostic test results, and treatment and outcome data for seven Swedish patients^a

Age (yr), gender (reference)	Clinical diagnosis or signs	Cat contact	Origin of tissue sample	gltA sequence	16S rRNA type	Bh ftsZ variant	Date of serum sample (mo/day/yr)	Antibody titer			Treatment	Outcome
Age (yr), gender (reference)	Clinical diagnosis or signs	Cat contact	Origin of tissue sample	gltA sequence	16S rRNA type	Bh ftsZ variant	Date of serum sample (mo/day/yr)	B.h.	B.e.	B.q.	Treatment	Outcome
37, M (33)	ARVC, autopsy finding	Former cat owner	Myocardium from right ventricle wall^b	B.h.	ND	1	1/5/99	<64	<64	<64
32, M (33)	ARVC (endomyocardial biopsy; presence of late potentials)	Former cat owner	Whole blood	Neg	ND	2	1993	256	256	<64	Tetracycline, 200 mg daily, was started
							1/98	256	256	<64	Tetracycline, 200 mg daily, was started
							6/10/98	<64	128	<64
							02/17/99	<64	<64	<64
8, M	Chronic multifocal osteomyelitis	Cat scratch 4 mo before onset of symptoms	Bone biopsy specimen from the left sternoclavicular joint	Neg	ND	1	3/20/98	128	<64	<64	Erythromycin, 250 mg twice daily, 8 wk	Signs of recovery before treatment
	Chronic multifocal osteomyelitis						4/17/98	256	<64	<64	Erythromycin, 250 mg twice daily, 8 wk	Signs of recovery before treatment
							5/19/98	64	<64	<64
							6/18/98	<64	<64	<64
12, F	Chronic multifocal osteomyelitis	Close contact with kittens 2 mo before onset of symptoms	Bone biopsy specimen from right sternoclavicular joint	B.h.	ND	2	2/18/99	<64	<64	<64	Clarithromycin, 250 mg twice daily, 8 wk	Complete recovery within 4 wk
	Chronic multifocal osteomyelitis						5/10/99	<64	<64	<64	Clarithromycin, 250 mg twice daily, 8 wk	Complete recovery within 4 wk


14, M	Lymph node hyperplasia; abdominal pain; granulocytopenia and trombocytopenia developed	Regular cat contact	Enlarged axillary lymph node	B.h.	ND	1	11/13/98	<64	<64	<64	(i) T/S, 14 days; (ii) Clarithromycin, 250 mg twice daily, 8 wk	Subjective improvement, but persisting granulocytopenia and trombocytopenia
17, F	Lymph node hyperplasia and anemia	Cat owner	Hyperplastic abdominal lymph node	Neg	ND	2	08/17/98	<64	<64	<64	Excision of abdominal enlarged lymph gland	Complete recovery
	Lymph node hyperplasia and anemia		Hyperplastic abdominal lymph node				10/7/98	<64	<64	<64	Excision of abdominal enlarged lymph gland
46, F	Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome of the cat owner	Cat owner	Cat blood	B.h.	ND	1	Cat owner, 1/4/99; 5/4/99; cat, 2/1/99	<64	<64		Azitromycin, 500 mg on day 1, 250 mg on days 2 to 5	Symptoms gradually resolving after 2 days
							Cat owner, 1/4/99; 5/4/99; cat, 2/1/99	<64	<64			Symptoms gradually resolving after 2 days
								256	256

Abbreviations: ND, not determined; B.h., B. henselae; B.q., B. quintana; B.e., B. elizabethae, T/S, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole; M, male; F, female; ARVC, arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy; neg, negative. At the time of admission all patients lived in Central Sweden.

PCR products were obtained by both PCR assays from the following tissue specimens: (i) left heart ventricle (myocardium and epicardium); (ii) right heart ventricle (superficial myocardium and epicardium); (iii) right heart ventricle (myocardium); (iv) vena cava and right atrium; (v) left atrioventricular (mitral) valve; (vi) papillary muscle adjacent to specimen 5; (vii) lymph node from the proximity of the tracheal bifurcation. Subsequent sequencing of the amplified products gave identical results.