Detection of Borrelia bissettii in cardiac valve tissue of a patient with endocarditis and aortic valve stenosis in the Czech Republic.
Molecular analysis of a clinical sample confirmed the presence of Borrelia bissettii DNA in cardiac valve tissue from a patient with endocarditis and aortic valve stenosis. This evidence strongly supports the involvement of B. bissettii in Lyme disease in Europe.
Rudenko
Nataliia
N
Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology AS CR and Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in Ceské Budejovice, Branisovská 31, 37005, Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic. natasharudenko@hotmail.com
Golovchenko
Maryna
M
Mokrácek
Ales
A
Piskunová
Natalja
N
Ruzek
Daniel
D
Mallatová
Nadja
N
Grubhoffer
Libor
L
D000818:Animals; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis; D001898:Borrelia / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018153:Czech Republic; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology*; D005408:Flagellin / Q000235:genetics; D006351:Heart Valves / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010802:Phylogeny; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017385:Sequence Homology
D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D005408:Flagellin