154. Diagnosis and Genotyping of Coxiella burnetii Causing Endocarditis in a Patient With Prosthetic Pulmonary Valve Replacement (PVR) Using Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) of Plasma

BACKGROUND: Identification of Coxiella burnetii, the etiologic agent of Q Fever, in culture-negative endocarditis (CNE) remains challenging, and strain-level information is typically unavailable through conventional testing. We used a novel next-generation sequencing (NGS) assay on plasma cell-free...

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Autores principales: Kondo, Maiko, Dalai, Sudeb, Westblade, Lars, Venkatasubrahmanyam, Shivkumar, Eisenberg, Nell, Marks, Kristen M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6253123/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy209.024

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