1 Jacksonville Health Education Program, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL 32204
To the Editor.
Cat-scratch disease remains the most common cause of single-node lymphadenopathy among young people except that caused by obvious signs of infection such as skin lesions and infections of the mouth and throat.1 The discovery of a Gram-negative organism, not stainable with routinely used stains, in sections from the lymph nodes of patients with cat-scratch disease by Wear et al,2 and the report by Margileth et al3 of recognition of the same organism in inoculation sites of patients with this disease are of great importance.