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Case Reports
. 2005 Feb;43(2):945-7.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.43.2.945-947.2005.

Bartonella vinsonii subsp. arupensis as an agent of blood culture-negative endocarditis in a human

Florence Fenollar  1 , Stéphane Sire, Didier Raoult
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Bartonella vinsonii subsp. arupensis as an agent of blood culture-negative endocarditis in a human

Florence Fenollar et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Feb.

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  • J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Sep;43(9):4923. Wilhelm, Nathalie [removed]

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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.

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FIG. 1.
FIG. 1.
Western blotting performed with the first serum sample from 5 June at a 1:200 dilution. Molecular masses (in kilodaltons) are given on the left. (A through E) Serum was analyzed by using B. quintana (lane 1), B. henselae (lane 2), B. elizabethae (lane 3), B. vinsonii subsp. arupensis (lane 4), and B. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii (lane 5) antigens. (A) Untreated serum. (B) B. vinsonii subsp. arupensis-adsorbed serum. All antibodies were removed. (C) B. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii-adsorbed serum. All antibodies were removed. (D) B. quintana-adsorbed serum. Antibodies to the two subspecies of B. vinsonii remained. (E) B. henselae-adsorbed serum. Antibodies to the two subspecies of B. vinsonii remained. (F through H) Serum was analyzed by using B. vinsonii subsp. arupensis (lane 4) and C. pneumoniae (lane 6) antigens. (F) Untreated serum. Note the lower reaction to C. pneumoniae. (G) B. vinsonii subsp. arupensis-adsorbed serum. All antibodies were removed. (H) C. pneumoniae-adsorbed serum. Antibodies to B. vinsonii subsp. arupensis remained.
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