Trench Fever
Trench Fever is a disease is caused by the bacterium Bartonella quintana (older names: Rochalimea quintana, Rickettsia quintana), Bartonella quintana is closely related to Bartonella henselae, the agent of cat scratch fever and bacillary angiomatosis. B. quintana is a fastidious, aerobic, Gram-negative(-), pole rod-shaped (bacillus) bacterium. The infection caused by this microorganism, trench fever, was […]