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Diane Hensel
American technologist.
Associated eponyms:
Bartonella henselae
A bacterium that causes cat scratch disease.
Biography:
In 1985, Diane Hensel, then a technologist in the laboratory of Dr. David F. Welch in the clinical microbiology laboratory, University Hospitals, Oklahoma City, recovered and worked up isolates from blood cultures of several HIV-infected patients. According to Dr. Welch, they saw one isolate of this "Campylobacter-like" organism each year for the next few years. In their paper of 1990 suggested that the unknown bacillus was related to Rochalimae quintana. The organism was first named Rochalimaea henselae and then Bartonella henselae, when sequencing revealed identity with that genus.
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