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Infective endocarditis due to Bartonella quintana: a challenging diagnostic entity
Can Yerebakan1, Bernd Westphal, Christian Aepinus
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical Faculty University of Rostock, Germany. can.yerebakan@med.uni-rostock.de
Acta Cardiologica
|September 18, 2008
Abstract:
Bartonella quintana is a gram-negative microorganism, which may lead to infective endocarditis especially in compromised patients. The major concern about this pathogen is the diagnosis and detection. Furthermore, the treatment of the infection has been a challenge for physicians. In this report, we present a 71-year-old patient with Bartonella quintana aortic valve endocarditis from the view of diagnosis and treatment aspects.