Affiliation:
1. Departments of Pathology and Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
Abstract
ABSTRACT
A duplex PCR (dPCR) assay was developed to simultaneously detect and differentiate
Bartonella quintana
,
Bartonella henselae
, and
Coxiella burnetii
from surgical heart valve tissue specimens with an analytic sensitivity of 10 copies/reaction. Among 17 specimens collected from patients with a clinical diagnosis of culture-negative endocarditis, 2, 4, and 2 were positive for
B
.
quintana
,
B
.
henselae
, and
C
.
burnetii
, respectively, by the dPCR assay, which matched the results obtained by universal bacterial 16S rRNA gene amplification and sequencing.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Cited by
17 articles.
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