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Bartonella quintana endocarditis: A systematic review of individual cases.
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2023INTRODUCTION Bartonella quintana is a louse-borne bacterium that remains a neglected cause of endocarditis in low-resource settings. Our understanding of risk factors, clinical manifestations and treatment of B.
Carl Boodman +3 more
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Zoonoses and Public Health, 2023
The human lice Pediculus humanus is distributed worldwide but, it thrives and flourishes under conflict situations where people are forced to live in crowded unhygienic conditions. Molecular methods were used to identify and screen human lice for the DNA
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The human lice Pediculus humanus is distributed worldwide but, it thrives and flourishes under conflict situations where people are forced to live in crowded unhygienic conditions. Molecular methods were used to identify and screen human lice for the DNA
J. Kamani +4 more
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Bartonella (Rochalimaea) quintana infections
Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 1996Bartonella (formerly Rochalimaea) quintana is the etiological agent of trench fever, a disease extensively reported during the World Wars. Recent molecular biology approaches have allowed dramatic extension of the spectrum of Bartonella infections. B.
Didier Raoult, Max Maurin
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Bartonella quintana in human erythrocytes
The Lancet, 2002Bartonella quintana is transmitted by body lice among homeless people. Infection with this organism leads to chronic bacteraemia with few symptoms. We looked for B quintana in erythrocytes in a population of homeless people in Marseille, France. In this report we show the intraerythrocytic presence of B quintana in people with symptomless bacteraemia ...
Régis Guieu +5 more
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Bartonella quintana associated neuroretinitis
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2006We report an observational case of Bartonella quintana-associated neuroretinitis. The patient had a positive IgM IFA titer for Bartonella quintana early in the disease. After treatment, the neuroretinitis and IgM resolved. Given the patient's history, symptoms, response to treatment, and IgM course, we believe his neuroretinitis was secondary to ...
Jay C. Bradley +3 more
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Journal of medical entomology, 2023
Bartonella quintana is a gram-negative bacterium causing trench fever, an illness historically acquired by soldiers during World War I. More recently, outbreaks of trench fever have been reported in those experiencing homelessness in the United States ...
Toshinori Sasaki +5 more
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Bartonella quintana is a gram-negative bacterium causing trench fever, an illness historically acquired by soldiers during World War I. More recently, outbreaks of trench fever have been reported in those experiencing homelessness in the United States ...
Toshinori Sasaki +5 more
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Bartonella quintana in Ethiopian lice
Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2012Head and clothing lice from Jimma, Ethiopia were investigated for pathogenic bacteria. Genomic DNA from pools of lice was subjected to PCR analysis for Bartonella spp., Borrelia spp. Coxiella burnetii, Rickettsia spp. and Yersinia pestis. All 102 lice pools were negative for the afore mentioned pathogens, with the exception of Bartonella species found ...
Alemseged Abdissa +4 more
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Bartonella quintana endocarditis in east Africa
European Journal of Internal Medicine, 2005Bartonella quintana endocarditis is characterized by sub-acute evolution and severe valvular damage, and is associated with homelessness, alcoholism, and lice infestation. We present a case of B. quintana endocarditis in an Ethiopian immigrant without known risk factors for disease acquisition. This is the first case of B.
Lee H. Goldstein +5 more
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Culture-Positive Bartonella quintana Endocarditis
European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 1999A 50-year-old alcoholic man with a 1-year history of pyrexia of unknown origin was admitted with symptoms of endocarditis. Large vegetations on his mitral and aortic valve were found on echocardiography. Using the Bactec 9240 system. Bartonella quintana could be grown from two culture sets of blood collected before the start of antimicrobial therapy ...
T. G. Harrison +5 more
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