From cat scratch disease to endocarditis, the possible natural history of Bartonella henselae infection

BACKGROUND: Most patients with infectious endocarditis (IE) due to Bartonella henselae have a history of exposure to cats and pre-existing heart valve lesions. To date, none of the reported patients have had a history of typical cat scratch disease (CSD) which is also a manifestation of infection wi...

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Autores principales: Gouriet, Frédérique, Lepidi, Hubert, Habib, Gilbert, Collart, Frédéric, Raoult, Didier
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1868026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17442105
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-7-30
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author Gouriet, Frédérique
Lepidi, Hubert
Habib, Gilbert
Collart, Frédéric
Raoult, Didier
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Lepidi, Hubert
Habib, Gilbert
Collart, Frédéric
Raoult, Didier
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description BACKGROUND: Most patients with infectious endocarditis (IE) due to Bartonella henselae have a history of exposure to cats and pre-existing heart valve lesions. To date, none of the reported patients have had a history of typical cat scratch disease (CSD) which is also a manifestation of infection with B. henselae. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report the case of a patient who had CSD and six months later developed IE of the mitral valve caused by B. henselae. CONCLUSION: Based on this unique case, we speculate that CSD represents the primary-infection of B. henselae and that IE follows in patients with heart valve lesions.
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spelling pubmed-18680262007-05-12 From cat scratch disease to endocarditis, the possible natural history of Bartonella henselae infection Gouriet, Frédérique Lepidi, Hubert Habib, Gilbert Collart, Frédéric Raoult, Didier BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Most patients with infectious endocarditis (IE) due to Bartonella henselae have a history of exposure to cats and pre-existing heart valve lesions. To date, none of the reported patients have had a history of typical cat scratch disease (CSD) which is also a manifestation of infection with B. henselae. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we report the case of a patient who had CSD and six months later developed IE of the mitral valve caused by B. henselae. CONCLUSION: Based on this unique case, we speculate that CSD represents the primary-infection of B. henselae and that IE follows in patients with heart valve lesions. BioMed Central 2007-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC1868026/ /pubmed/17442105 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-7-30 Text en Copyright © 2007 Gouriet et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Gouriet, Frédérique
Lepidi, Hubert
Habib, Gilbert
Collart, Frédéric
Raoult, Didier
From cat scratch disease to endocarditis, the possible natural history of Bartonella henselae infection
title From cat scratch disease to endocarditis, the possible natural history of Bartonella henselae infection
title_full From cat scratch disease to endocarditis, the possible natural history of Bartonella henselae infection
title_fullStr From cat scratch disease to endocarditis, the possible natural history of Bartonella henselae infection
title_full_unstemmed From cat scratch disease to endocarditis, the possible natural history of Bartonella henselae infection
title_short From cat scratch disease to endocarditis, the possible natural history of Bartonella henselae infection
title_sort from cat scratch disease to endocarditis, the possible natural history of bartonella henselae infection
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1868026/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17442105
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-7-30
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