Identification of Novel Zoonotic Activity of Bartonella spp., France

Methods PatientsDuring January-June 2013, we conducted a study of a cohort of 66 French patients who had consulted their doctors for chronic symptoms appearing after a tick bite.The entire study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of the Institut Federatif de Recherche 48 under reference 13-022-1.All patients associated symptom onset with tick bites that occurred during 2008-2012 (Table 1).At symptom onset, local doctors were consulted, and serologic tests for Lyme borreliosis were performed.All patient samples