Bartonella vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii--Endocarditis in a Dog Due to Infection with--巴尔通体.pdf

JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY, Jan. 1995, p. 154–160 Vol. 33, No. 1 0095-1137/95/$04.00 0 Copyright 1995, American Society for Microbiology Endocarditis in a Dog Due to Infection with a Novel Bartonella Subspecies 1 1 2 EDWARD B. BREITSCHWERDT, * DORSEY L. KORDICK, DAVID E. MALARKEY, BRUCE KEENE,1 TED L. HADFIELD,3 AND KENNETH WILSON4 Departments of Companion Animal and Special Species Medicine 1 and Microbiology, Pathology, and Parasitology,2 College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27606; Department of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C. 203063; and Veterans Affairs Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 277104 Received 3 August 1994/Returned for modification 12 September 1994/Accepted 19 October 1994 Vegetative valvular endocarditis involving the aortic and, to a lesser extent, mitral valves was diagnosed echocardiographically in a 3-year-old spayed female Labrador retriever. Historically, the dog had been treated with tetracycline hydrochloride and prednisolone for positive seroreactivity to Ehrlichia canis and antinuclear antigens. Although three aerobic and anaerobic blood cultures failed to grow bacteria, blood cultured simultaneously by the lysis centrifugation technique grew a fas