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Bartonella koehlerae , a New Cat-Associated Agent of Culture-Negative Human Endocarditis
1 Aug 2004
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Bartonella koehlerae is reported for the first time to be a human pathogen that causes culture-negative endocarditis. It is also shown that this species, isolated twice before from domestic cats, can be recovered as well from a stray cat population in Israel. This work follows a recent report of the same case in which the causative agent was misidentified as B. henselae, based on serology and PCR-restriction...
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