Management of Bartonella Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis without Cardiac Surgery
- Padmasayee Papineni
- Aisling Carroll
- Johannes Radvan
- Carolyn Hemsley
- John Chambers
- Nicholas Cortes
- Timothy Harrison
- John L. Klein
Publication date
May 2017
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
Two cases of Bartonella prosthetic valve endocarditis were cured when treated for 2 weeks with gentamicin and 3 months with doxycycline. Clinical cure correlated with decreased Bartonella antibody titers. This report suggests a strategy to monitor, treat, and cure Bartonella prosthetic valve endocarditis
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