Bartonella quintana, an Unrecognized Cause of Infective Endocarditis in Children in Ethiopia

Bartonella quintana endocarditis, a common cause of culture-negative endocarditis in adults, has rarely been reported in children. We describe 5 patients 7–16 years of age from Ethiopia with heart defects and endocarditis; 4 cases were caused by infection with B. quintana and 1 by Bartonella of unde...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Diana Tasher, Alona Raucher-Sternfeld, Akiva Tamir, Michael Giladi, Eli Somekh
التنسيق: مقال
اللغة:English
منشور في: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017-08-01
سلاسل:Emerging Infectious Diseases
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/8/16-1037_article