Culture-Negative Endocarditis in an Immunocompromised Patient: A Case of Suspected Bartonella and Coxiella Co-Infection

We present the case of a 23-year-old man with a previous deceased-donor renal transplant maintained on tacrolimus and prednisone who developed culture-negative endocarditis (CNE) of the mitral and aortic valves. He was suspected of being co-infected with Bartonella henselae and Coxiella burnetii, co...

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Autores principales: Swarath, Steven, Maharaj, Nicole, Kawall, Tiffany, Seecheran, Rajeev, Seecheran, Valmiki, Giddings, Stanley, Seecheran, Naveen Anand
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10413893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37559398
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23247096231192811
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author Swarath, Steven
Maharaj, Nicole
Kawall, Tiffany
Seecheran, Rajeev
Seecheran, Valmiki
Giddings, Stanley
Seecheran, Naveen Anand
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Maharaj, Nicole
Kawall, Tiffany
Seecheran, Rajeev
Seecheran, Valmiki
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description We present the case of a 23-year-old man with a previous deceased-donor renal transplant maintained on tacrolimus and prednisone who developed culture-negative endocarditis (CNE) of the mitral and aortic valves. He was suspected of being co-infected with Bartonella henselae and Coxiella burnetii, confirmed with serology testing. He was successfully managed with appropriate antibiotics and dual valve replacement.
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spelling pubmed-104138932023-08-11 Culture-Negative Endocarditis in an Immunocompromised Patient: A Case of Suspected Bartonella and Coxiella Co-Infection Swarath, Steven Maharaj, Nicole Kawall, Tiffany Seecheran, Rajeev Seecheran, Valmiki Giddings, Stanley Seecheran, Naveen Anand J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report We present the case of a 23-year-old man with a previous deceased-donor renal transplant maintained on tacrolimus and prednisone who developed culture-negative endocarditis (CNE) of the mitral and aortic valves. He was suspected of being co-infected with Bartonella henselae and Coxiella burnetii, confirmed with serology testing. He was successfully managed with appropriate antibiotics and dual valve replacement. SAGE Publications 2023-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC10413893/ /pubmed/37559398 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23247096231192811 Text en © 2023 American Federation for Medical Research https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
spellingShingle Case Report
Swarath, Steven
Maharaj, Nicole
Kawall, Tiffany
Seecheran, Rajeev
Seecheran, Valmiki
Giddings, Stanley
Seecheran, Naveen Anand
Culture-Negative Endocarditis in an Immunocompromised Patient: A Case of Suspected Bartonella and Coxiella Co-Infection
title Culture-Negative Endocarditis in an Immunocompromised Patient: A Case of Suspected Bartonella and Coxiella Co-Infection
title_full Culture-Negative Endocarditis in an Immunocompromised Patient: A Case of Suspected Bartonella and Coxiella Co-Infection
title_fullStr Culture-Negative Endocarditis in an Immunocompromised Patient: A Case of Suspected Bartonella and Coxiella Co-Infection
title_full_unstemmed Culture-Negative Endocarditis in an Immunocompromised Patient: A Case of Suspected Bartonella and Coxiella Co-Infection
title_short Culture-Negative Endocarditis in an Immunocompromised Patient: A Case of Suspected Bartonella and Coxiella Co-Infection
title_sort culture-negative endocarditis in an immunocompromised patient: a case of suspected bartonella and coxiella co-infection
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10413893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37559398
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23247096231192811
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