Isolation of candidatus Bartonella melophagi from human blood

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 66-68

  Maggi, Ricardo G ^a   Kosoy, Michael ^b   Mintzer, Melanie ^c   Breitschwerdt, Edward B ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c Generations Family Practice   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFUROXIME; CITRATE SYNTHASE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME RNA; RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERIAL WALL THICKENING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA MELOPHAGI; BARTONELLOSIS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CAT SCRATCH DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLEA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MOSQUITO; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATIENT CARE; PERICARDITIS; TICK BITE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; BLOOD; CITRATE (SI)-SYNTHASE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SHEEP;

EID: 58849113639     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1501.081080     Document Type: Article

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