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Bartonella quintana Infection in Canada: A Retrospective Laboratory Study and Systematic Review of the Literature. [PDF]

open access: yesPathogens
Background:Bartonella quintana is a body-louse-borne bacterium. Canadian B. quintana disease has been reported primarily in populations experiencing homelessness and in Indigenous communities with limited access to water.
Boodman C   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Silent Threat: Bartonella quintana Endocarditis Unveiling Heart Failure and Severe Pulmonary Hypertension. [PDF]

open access: yesAm J Case Rep, 2023
Patient: Male, 51-year-old Final Diagnosis: Endocarditis • pulmonary hypertension Symptoms: Aphasia • confusion Clinical Procedure: — Specialty: Cardiology • Infectious Diseases • Pulmonology Objective: Rare coexistence of disease or pathology Background:
Boctor D, Bakke B, Chorba JS.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Hidden Burden of Bartonella quintana on the African Continent: Should the Bacterial Infection Be Considered a Neglected Tropical Disease? [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Forum Infect Dis, 2023
Bartonella quintana is a louse-borne gram-negative bacillus that remains a poorly characterized cause of bacteremia, fever, and infective endocarditis. Due to the link with pediculosis, B quintana transmission is tied to poverty, conflict, overcrowding ...
Boodman C   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Exploring the potential role of defensins in differential vector competence of body and head lice for Bartonella quintana. [PDF]

open access: yesParasit Vectors, 2023
Background The body and head lice of humans are conspecific, but only the body louse functions as a vector to transmit bacterial pathogens such as Bartonella quintana . Both louse subspecies have only two antimicrobial peptides, defensin 1 and defensin 2.
Yoon KA, Lee DE, Lee SH, Kim JH.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Bartonella quintana Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients from Donor Experiencing Homelessness, United States, 2022. [PDF]

open access: yesEmerg Infect Dis
Bartonella quintana infection can cause severe disease that includes clinical manifestations such as endocarditis, chronic bacteremia, and vasoproliferative lesions of the skin and viscera. B.
Beeson AM   +30 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Donor-Derived Bartonella quintana Infection in Solid Organ Transplantation: An Emerging Public Health Issue With Diagnostic Challenges. [PDF]

open access: yesOpen Forum Infect Dis
Bartonella quintana is a louse-borne intracellular bacterium that remains a neglected cause of bacteremia, bacillary angiomatosis, and infective endocarditis among individuals experiencing poverty.
Boodman C   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Bartonella quintana Endocarditis Complicated by Cerebral Stroke: A Case Report. [PDF]

open access: yesCureus
Bartonella quintana is rarely associated with neurological manifestations. This report describes a rare case of endocarditis complicated by a cerebral stroke caused by B. quintana.
Argudín MA   +11 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

<i>Bartonella quintana</i> pulmonary native valve endocarditis. [PDF]

open access: yesIndian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
Bartonella quintana is a well-known cause of blood culture-negative endocarditis; however, pulmonary valve involvement is rare. The case of a 40-year-old African male who presented to the Emergency Department with chest pain, cardiac failure, and a 2-week history of fever is presented. Transoesophageal echocardiography confirmed an atrial septal defect,
Aranda-Domene R   +5 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

POPULATION STRUCTURE AND BARTONELLA QUINTANA IN HEAD AND BODY LICE IN POKHARA, NEPAL (ANOPLURA: PEDICULIDAE). [PDF]

open access: yesJ Parasitol, 2023
This study examined the population structure of head and body lice infesting a random sample of people in Pokhara, Nepal during 2003, 2004, and 2005. A total of 106 participants (6 to 72 yr old, median = 12) volunteered to have lice collected from their ...
Poudel SS, Vaughan JA.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata) as Natural Reservoir of Bartonella quintana [PDF]

open access: diamondEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2015
Bartonella quintana bacteremia was detected in 6 (13.3%) of 45 wild-caught Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). Multilocus sequence typing of the isolates revealed that Japanese macaques were infected with a new and specific B.
Shingo Sato   +8 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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