Bartonella clarridgeiae bacteremia detected in an asymptomatic blood donor

Gislaine Vieira-Damiani; Pedro Paulo Vissotto de Paiva Diniz; Luiza Helena Urso Pitassi; Stanley Sowy; Diana Gerardi Scorpio; Bruno Grosselli Lania; Marina Rovani Drummond; Tânia Cristina Benetti Soares; Maria de Lourdes Barjas-Castro; Edward B Breitschwerdt; William L Nicholson; Paulo Eduardo Neves Ferreira Velho

doi:10.1128/JCM.00934-14

Bartonella clarridgeiae bacteremia detected in an asymptomatic blood donor

J Clin Microbiol. 2015 Jan;53(1):352-6. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00934-14. Epub 2014 Nov 12.

Affiliations

¹ Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) Medical School, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
² Western University of Health Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Pomona, California, USA diniz@westernu.edu.
³ Western University of Health Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Pomona, California, USA.
⁴ Department of Molecular & Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁵ Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) Medical School, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
⁶ Intracellular Pathogens Research Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
⁷ Rickettsial Zoonoses Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Abstract

Human exposure to Bartonella clarridgeiae has been reported only on the basis of antibody detection. We report for the first time an asymptomatic human blood donor infected with B. clarridgeiae, as documented by enrichment blood culture, PCR, and DNA sequencing.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Bacteriological Techniques / methods*
Bartonella / genetics*
Bartonella Infections* / diagnosis
Bartonella Infections* / microbiology
Blood Donors*
Humans
Male
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Sequence Analysis, DNA