Taxonomy	Species	Bartonella henselae
	Category	Bacteria
	Genus	Bartonella
	Family	Bartonellaceae
	Order/Class	Rhizobiales
	Phylum	Proteobacteria
Human and animal disease	Human disease	Cat scratch disease
	Predominant syndrome	Lymfodenopathy
	Occ. risk group	Forestry, and related workers
	Incubation time	3-14 days
	Disease in farm animals	No
	Disease in pets and horses	No
	Disease in wildlife	Yes
	Specfic animal species	Cats, felines and sometimes dogs, porpoises
Reservoirs	Humans	No
	Farm animals	No
	Pets and horses	Yes
	Wildlife	No
	Specific animal species	Felines

Transmission	Human to human	No
	Skin	No
	Tissue/blood: Arthropods	Yes
	Tissue/blood: Invasive actions	Yes
	Secreta/excreta: Air	No
	Secreta/excreta: Water/food/environment	No
	Secreta/excreta: Close animal contact	No
	Transmission info	Cat scratch, flea bite
Geographic distribution	Netherlands	Yes
	Europe	Yes
	Africa	Yes
	North America	Yes
	South America	Yes
	Australia	Yes
	Asia	Yes
	Distribution info	Worldwide
Info	Specifics
	Human ref. website URL
	Animal ref. website URL

		Value		Normalised value	Weight	Score
1	Probability of introduction into the Netherlands	100	%	1	0.418	0.42
2	Transmission in animal reservoirs	10	%	0.86	0.292	0.25
3	Economic damage, animal reservoirs	0.5	M€	0	0.337	0
4	Animal-human transmission	0.05	%	0.23	0.626	0.15
5	Human-human transmission	0	%	0	0.339	0
6	Morbidity	0.06		0.28	0.181	0.05
7	Mortality	0.05	%	0.53	0.643	0.34
	Total					1.2
	Normalised score					0.48

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