Affiliation:
1. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (IOC)/FIOCRUZ
2. Instituto de Pesquisa Clínica Evandro Chagas
3. Instituto de Pesquisa Evandro Chagas, Brasil
Abstract
Bartonella henselae is associated with a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations, including cat scratch disease, endocarditis and meningoencephalitis, in immunocompetent and immunocompromised patients. We report the first molecularly confirmed case of B. henselae infection in an AIDS patient in state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Although DNA sequence of B. henselae has been detected by polymerase chain reaction in a lymph node biopsy, acute and convalescent sera were nonreactive.
Subject
Infectious Diseases,General Medicine
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