Bartonella vinsonii subsp. arupensis as an agent of blood culture-negative endocarditis in a human.
We report the case of a patient hospitalized with endocarditis. The etiological diagnosis of Bartonella was suggested by detection of high titers of antibodies by immunofluorescence and Western blotting. Two different nested PCRs performed on sera identified Bartonella vinsonii subsp. arupensis by sequencing.
Fenollar
Florence
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Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, IFR 48, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France.
Sire
Stéphane
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Wilhelm
Nathalie
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Raoult
Didier
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D000368:Aged; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000097:blood; D001473:Bartonella / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001474:Bartonella Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology; D001769:Blood / Q000382:microbiology; D003470:Culture Media; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data
D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D003470:Culture Media