title: Bartonella vinsonii subsp. arupensis as an agent of blood culture-negative endocarditis in a human.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, IFR 48, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France.
authors.forename: Florence
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fenollar
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sire
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wilhelm
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Raoult
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D003470:Culture Media