Meningitis due to a "Bartonella washoensis"-like human pathogen

Will Probert; Janice K Louie; James R Tucker; Rose Longoria; Robin Hogue; Silvia Moler; Margot Graves; Heather J Palmer; Joseph Cassady; Curtis L Fritz

doi:10.1128/JCM.00511-09

Meningitis due to a "Bartonella washoensis"-like human pathogen

J Clin Microbiol. 2009 Jul;47(7):2332-5. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00511-09. Epub 2009 May 13.

Authors

Will Probert¹, Janice K Louie, James R Tucker, Rose Longoria, Robin Hogue, Silvia Moler, Margot Graves, Heather J Palmer, Joseph Cassady, Curtis L Fritz

Affiliation

¹ Microbial Diseases Laboratory, Division of Communicable Disease Control, Center for Infectious Diseases, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA 94804, USA. Will.Probert@cdph.ca.gov

Abstract

We report the second human case of infection caused by an organism identified as the proposed Bartonella species, "B. washoensis." The organism was isolated from a blood sample from a patient presenting with meningitis and early sepsis. Oropsylla montana fleas were implicated as the vector for disease transmission in this case.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Animals
Bacteremia / microbiology
Bartonella / classification
Bartonella / isolation & purification*
Bartonella Infections / diagnosis*
Bartonella Infections / microbiology
Blood / microbiology
Cluster Analysis
DNA, Bacterial / chemistry
DNA, Bacterial / genetics
DNA, Ribosomal / chemistry
DNA, Ribosomal / genetics
Disease Vectors
Female
Humans
Meningitis, Bacterial / diagnosis*
Meningitis, Bacterial / microbiology
Middle Aged
Phylogeny
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Siphonaptera / microbiology

Substances

DNA, Bacterial
DNA, Ribosomal
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S