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cat-scratch fever

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noun

  1. a disease of humans caused by an organism, Bartonella henselae , usually resulting from a scratch by a cat and characterized by lymph node enlargement

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The scratches, the fever, the hugely swollen lymph node: This felt to him like cat-scratch fever.

From New York Times Dec. 29, 2022

Finally, they got their answer: He had cat-scratch fever, an infection caused by a bacterium called Bartonella henselae.

From New York Times Dec. 29, 2022

It took months before she was given a diagnosis of cat-scratch fever.

From The New Yorker Jul. 2, 2018

She told them about the case of cat-scratch fever that she contracted in 2007, when she was working as an assistant and living in Bed-Stuy.

From The New Yorker Jul. 2, 2018

Journal that they have traced a total of 160 cases of cat-scratch fever.

From Time Magazine Archive

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