High frequency of Tropheryma whipplei in culture-negative endocarditis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 216-222

  Geißdörfer, Walter ^a   Moos, Verena ^b   Moter, Annette ^b   Loddenkemper, Christoph ^b,e   Jansen, Andreas ^c,f   Tandler, René ^a   Morguet, Andreas J ^b   Fenollar, Florence ^d   Raoult, Didier ^d   Bogdan, Christian ^a   Schneider, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e Gemeinschaftspraxis fur Pathologie   (Germany)

^f EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CASPOFUNGIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; SULBACTAM; TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN;

16S RRNA GENE; ADULT; AGED; AGGREGATIBACTER ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; BLOOD CULTURE; CARDIOBACTERIUM HOMINIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COXIELLA BURNETII; EIKENELLA CORRODENS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOLLOW UP; GENE SEQUENCE; GERMANY; HAEMOPHILUS; HEART VALVE BIOPROSTHESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KINGELLA KINGAE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; AGED; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART VALVES; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TROPHERYMA;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA QUINTANA; CARDIOBACTERIUM HOMINIS; COXIELLA BURNETII; EIKENELLA CORRODENS; HAEMOPHILUS; KINGELLA KINGAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TROPHERYMA WHIPPLEI;

EID: 84856179347     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05531-11     Document Type: Article

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