Detection of Borrelia bissettii in cardiac valve tissue of a patient with endocarditis and aortic valve stenosis in the Czech Republic

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3540-3543

  Rudenko, Nataliia ^a,b   Golovchenko, Maryna ^a,b   Mokráček, Aleŝ ^c   Piskunová, Natalja ^c   Růžek, Daniel ^a,b   Mallatová, Nadja ^c   Grubhoffer, Libor ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c Hospital Ceske Budejovice   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BORRELIA; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CZECH REPUBLIC; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA PURIFICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LYME DISEASE; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE DYSFUNCTION; SEROLOGY; TRICUSPID VALVE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BORRELIA; CZECH REPUBLIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FLAGELLIN; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BORRELIA BISSETTII;

EID: 53649088766     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01032-08     Document Type: Article

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