Bartonella quintana as a cause for prosthetic valve endocarditis and post-sternotomy mediastinitis

An otherwise healthy patient, with minimal clinical, biochemical and peroperative signs of infection, was diagnosed with Bartonella quintana prosthetic valve endocarditis by 16S PCR. The patient subsequently developed a post-sternotomy mediastinitis and Bartonella quintana was the only detected path...

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Autores principales: Plantinga, Nienke L., Vos, Roemer J., Georgieva, Lyuba, Roescher, Nienke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Microbiology Society 2021
Materias:
Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8209714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34151169
http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.000217
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Sumario:An otherwise healthy patient, with minimal clinical, biochemical and peroperative signs of infection, was diagnosed with Bartonella quintana prosthetic valve endocarditis by 16S PCR. The patient subsequently developed a post-sternotomy mediastinitis and Bartonella quintana was the only detected pathogen. Bartonella quintana can cause severe infections in individuals not classically at risk, and may be missed in the routine diagnostic work-up of endocarditis.

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