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False Negative Results in Bartonellosis Diagnosis

2019; Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.; Volume: 19; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1089/vbz.2018.2378

1557-7759

Marina Rovani Drummond, Luciene Silva dos Santos, Marilene Neves da Silva, Amanda Roberta de Almeida, Pedro Paulo Vissotto de Paiva Diniz, Rodrigo Nogueira Angerami, Paulo Eduardo Neves Ferreira Velho,

Vector-borne infectious diseases

We report a fatal case of Bartonella henselae bacteremic patient. He had negative serology and PCRs from whole blood and liquid culture; only ftsZ nested PCR was positive from the blood liquid culture. The isolate had positive PCRs. When considered, bartonellosis diagnosis can be still challenging because of technical limitations.