Molecular epidemiology of Bartonella quintana endocarditis in patients from Israel and Eastern Africa
Abstract Background Bartonella quintana is an important cause of culture-negative endocarditis. Although humans have been considered as its only reservoir, recent studies showed that macaque species are also reservoirs of B. quintana. Based on multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) B. quintana strains h...
Main Authors: | Shingo Sato, Lev Shapira, Diana Tasher, Soichi Maruyama, Michael Giladi |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-03-01
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Series: | BMC Infectious Diseases |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-023-08099-x |
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