{"id":211914,"date":"2021-03-26T21:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cat-scratch-bacteria-linked-to-schizophrenia-study\/"},"modified":"2021-03-26T21:30:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:30:04","slug":"cat-scratch-bacteria-linked-to-schizophrenia-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cat-scratch-bacteria-linked-to-schizophrenia-study\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Cat scratch’ bacteria linked to schizophrenia: study"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Cat scratch’ bacteria linked to schizophrenia: study<\/strong>”
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This connection between kitties and mental illness is, disturbingly, growing increasingly strong.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A new study has found that a bacteria known for causing the disease cat-scratch fever \u2014 named for cats\u2019 propensity for spreading it through bites and scratches \u2014 is found in the bloodstream of schizophrenics more frequently than those without the mental disorder.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The research, published<\/a> this month in the journal Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, only looked at a small contingent of people and is not definitive. But it adds to a growing body of work which supports that being infected with Bartonella bacteria can cause neurological problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOur research to date continues to support a role for Bartonella species as a cause or co-factor in neuropsychiatric illness,\u201d study author Edward Breitschwerdt, who has been studying the bacteria for years, told Gizmodo<\/a>. \u201cThere is a lot of work that needs to be accomplished to clarify these preliminary results.\u201d<\/p>\n

Breitschwerdt previously worked on a study about a 14-year-old Midwestern boy who suddenly began experiencing psychosis-like symptoms after being scratched by his cat.<\/p>\n

\u201cHistorically, prior to psychiatric symptom onset, the boy was social<\/a>ly, athletically, and academically active, as evidenced by participation in national geography and history competitions, and a lead actor in a school play, winning an award in fencing and achieving excellent course grades,\u201d a 2019 study by Breitschwerdt reported about the boy, who was initially diagnosed with schizophrenia. <\/p>\n

He was once placed on a psychiatric hold for a week after saying he was an \u201cevil, damned son of the devil,\u201d according to a report at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Doctors quickly began to dig through the boy\u2019s medical records, hoping for answers that would explain the boy\u2019s sudden bizarre behavior.<\/p>\n

After many years in and out of hospitals, they found that in fact he was suffering from a Bartonella infection. After receiving antibiotics to treat the infection, the boy made a \u201cfull\u201d recovery.<\/p>\n

Late last year, Breitschwerdt published a study in the journal Pathogens in which 33 participants, 29 of whom were found to be infected with Bartonella, self-reported neuropsychiatric symptoms. That study\u2019s findings also reported evidence of a connection between the bacteria and mental illness.\u00a0\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#’Cat scratch’ bacteria linked to schizophrenia: study” This connection between kitties and mental illness is, disturbingly, growing increasingly strong.\u00a0 A new study has found that a bacteria known for causing the disease cat-scratch fever \u2014 named for cats\u2019 propensity for spreading it through bites and scratches \u2014 is found in the bloodstream of schizophrenics more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/cats-81.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[99476,35550,48656,99607,9724],"class_list":["post-211914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3-26-21","tag-bacteria","tag-cats","tag-schizophrenia","tag-study-says"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}