Management of Bartonella Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis without Cardiac Surgery

Two cases of Bartonella prosthetic valve endocarditis were cured when treated for 2 weeks with gentamicin and 3 months with doxycycline. Clinical cure correlated with decreased Bartonella antibody titers. This report suggests a strategy to monitor, treat, and cure Bartonella prosthetic valve endocar...

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Autores principales: Papineni, Padmasayee, Carroll, Aisling, Radvan, Johannes, Hemsley, Carolyn, Chambers, John, Cortes, Nicholas, Harrison, Timothy, Klein, John L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017
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Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5403028/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28418306
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2305.161238
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author Papineni, Padmasayee
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spelling pubmed-54030282017-05-12 Management of Bartonella Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis without Cardiac Surgery Papineni, Padmasayee Carroll, Aisling Radvan, Johannes Hemsley, Carolyn Chambers, John Cortes, Nicholas Harrison, Timothy Klein, John L. Emerg Infect Dis Research Letter Two cases of Bartonella prosthetic valve endocarditis were cured when treated for 2 weeks with gentamicin and 3 months with doxycycline. Clinical cure correlated with decreased Bartonella antibody titers. This report suggests a strategy to monitor, treat, and cure Bartonella prosthetic valve endocarditis. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5403028/ /pubmed/28418306 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2305.161238 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Management of Bartonella Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis without Cardiac Surgery
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