Meningitis due to a "Bartonella washoensis"-like human pathogen.

ABSTRACT: We report the second human case of infection caused by an organism identified as the proposed Bartonella species, "B. washoensis." The organism was isolated from a blood sample from a patient presenting with meningitis and early sepsis. Oropsylla montana fleas were implicated as the vector for disease transmission in this case.

SUBMITTER: Probert W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2708507 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature