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SUBMITTER: Rodrick D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC387567 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical microbiology 20040401 4
A 44-year-old man with a bioprosthetic aortic valve suffered destructive endocarditis with severe embolic disease due to Bartonella henselae infection. Multilocus sequence typing was successfully performed with crude preparations of operative tissue as templates, and the infecting organism was determined to be typical of the Houston clonal group, although it was never cultured from blood or tissue. This is the first report of B. henselae infection in the South Pacific, and it reminds one that B. ...[more]