Bartonella quintana
Multispacer Typing Technique for Sequence Based Typing of Bartonella quintana
... Bartonella quintana is a worldwide fastidious bacterium of the Alphaproteobacteria responsible for bacillary angiomatosis, trench fever, chronic lymphadenopathy, and culture-negative ...B. quintana ...
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Culture of Bartonella quintana andBartonella henselae from Human Samples: a 5 Year Experience (1993 to 1998)
... Bartonella quintana and Bartonella henselae are fastidious gram-negative bacteria responsible for bacillary angiomatosis, trench fever, cat scratch disease, and ...B. quintana and nine ...
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Semiquantitative Species Specific Detection of Bartonella henselae and Bartonella quintana by PCR Enzyme Immunoassay
... and Bartonella quintana cause angioproliferative disorders such as bacillary ...of Bartonella detection by PCR and to improve the species differentiation, we developed a semiquantitative, ...
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Central Nervous System Infection Associated With Bartonella quintana : A Report of Two Cases
... B quintana gene ...B quintana in associa- tion with an encephalopathy. B quintana has rarely been associated with CNS pathology, although a sin- gle case of intracranial bacillary angiomatosis is ...
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Hemin-Binding Proteins as Potent Markers for Serological Diagnosis of Infections with Bartonella quintana
... tagged full-length proteins and deletion mutants were detected by anti-Xpress antibody at the expected position (Fig. 2B, top panel). Full-length HbpD was also detected with two sera, (30)-33 and (90)-69, whereas this ...
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Comparison of In-House and Commercial Slides for Detection by Immunofluorescence of Immunoglobulins G and M against Bartonella henselae and Bartonella quintana
... with a disease distinct from the disease being tested. Using an IFA test for detection of anti-B. henselae IgG antibodies at a cutoff titer of 64 in CSD patients, Regnery et al. (50), and Zangwill et al. (64) in the ...
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Serological cross reactions between Bartonella quintana, Bartonella henselae, and Coxiella burnetii
... and Bartonella species are important to identify, because patients infected by these bacteria may have identical clinical presentations, most notably infectious ...with Bartonella endocarditis, this ...
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Western Immunoblotting for Bartonella Endocarditis
... of Bartonella include transmission by an arthropod vector and persistence within mammalian reservoir hosts ...ple: Bartonella quintana, ...B. quintana, the agent of trench fever, and ...of ...
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Diagnosis of Bartonella Endocarditis by a Real Time Nested PCR Assay Using Serum
... recognized Bartonella species, 7 have been implicated in human diseases ...humans: Bartonella quintana, Bar- tonella henselae, Bartonella elizabethae, and Bartonella vinsonii ...(32). ...
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Multilocus Sequence Typing of Bartonella henselae in the United Kingdom Indicates that Only a Few, Uncommon Sequence Types Are Associated with Zoonotic Disease
... suspected Bartonella infections in ...and Bartonella quintana antibodies using Barto- nella IgG and IgM indirect immunofluorescent-antibody test kits (Focus Diag- nostics, Cypress, ...
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Novel Chemically Modified Liquid Medium That Will Support the Growth of Seven Bartonella Species
... of Bartonella species. Despite these efforts, isolation of Bartonella species from nonimmuno- compromised individuals remains a highly insensitive diagnos- tic ...multiple Bartonella species from ...
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First description of Bartonella koehlerae infection in a Spanish dog with infective endocarditis
... of Bartonella involved are B. bacilliformis, B. quintana, ...of Bartonella and the skin heman- giosarcoma could not be established in this study since Bartonella DNA could not be amplified ...
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Building Positive Future Orientations: The Role of Natural Mentors in the Lives of African American Girls
... The type-IV secretion systems (T4SS) are transport machineries in Gram-negative bacteria that are related to bacterial conjugation systems. Bacterial conjugation systems originally functioned in DNA transfer among ...
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First molecular detection and characterization of zoonotic Bartonella species in fleas infesting domestic animals in Tunisia
... Fleas are blood-sucking ectoparasites that are important vectors of pathogens including the bacteria of the Bartonella genus. In our study, 2178 fleas were removed from cats, dogs, sheep and goats from rural and ...
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Development of a Novel Genus Specific Real Time PCR Assay for Detection and Differentiation of Bartonella Species and Genotypes
... ruminant-associated Bartonella, including ...pathogenic Bartonella species ...other Bartonella species, thus supporting the separation of ...major Bartonella clades based on ssrA sequences was ...
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Candidatus Bartonella antechini: A novel Bartonella species detected in fleas and ticks from the yellow-footed antechinus (Antechinus flavipes), an Australian marsupial
... Candidatus Bartonella antechini: a novel Bartonella species detected in fleas and ticks from the yellow-footed antechinus (Antechinus flavipes); an Australian marsupial, Veterinary Microbiology (2010), ...
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Comparison of serological and molecular panels for diagnosis of vector borne diseases in dogs
... Anaplasma, Bartonella, Ehrlichia, and Rickettsia genera in dogs seems to be very unlikely, as dogs experimentally-infected with these pathogens develop very specific antibodies that do not cross react among genera ...
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Molecular Evidence of Bartonella spp in Questing Adult Ixodes pacificus Ticks in California
... identifying Bartonella species and subspecies, than the more conserved 16S rRNA gene (6, ...of Bartonella infections identified in questing ...human Bartonella pathogens, i.e., B. quintana, ...
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Absence of zoonotic Bartonella species in questing ticks: First detection of Bartonella clarridgeiae and Rickettsia felis in cat fleas in the Netherlands
... of Bartonella henselae, with a confirmed link to disease in humans ...Other Bartonella species, including Bartonella clarridgeiae and Bartonella grahamii, have also been linked to human ...
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Serial Testing from a 3 Day Collection Period by Use of the Bartonella Alphaproteobacteria Growth Medium Platform May Enhance the Sensitivity of Bartonella Species Detection in Bacteremic Human Patients
... A total of 91 patients, for whom testing was performed in an iden- tical manner, were included in the study population. Group 1 comprised 55 patients (60.5%), and group 2 comprised 36 pa- tients (39.5%). Demographic ...
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