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.

SUBMITTER: Fenollar F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC548060 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature