Which of the following describes the symptoms of Bartonella infection in people?

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Bartonella infections can range from a localized lymph node swelling after a scratch to disseminated disease that involves the skin, systemic symptoms, and sometimes the nervous system. The description that includes a red skin rash from cutaneous lesions (bacillary angiomatosis or related skin involvement), flu-like symptoms, lymphadenopathy, fever, and potential progression to neurologic abnormalities fits this spectrum. The skin rash reflects the vascular lesions seen in bartonellosis, fever and flu-like illness are common systemic features, enlarged lymph nodes are classic in cat scratch disease, and neurologic involvement can occur in disseminated or neurobartonellosis cases, especially in immunocompromised individuals. The other options describe symptom patterns more typical of other diseases (for example, abdominal pain alone is not characteristic of bartonella, joint swelling without fever points away from infection like cat scratch disease, and chronic cough with night sweats suggests tuberculosis or similar infections).