Bartonella clarridgeiae bacteremia detected in an asymptomatic blood donor.
Gislaine Vieira-DamianiPedro Paulo Vissotto de Paiva DinizLuiza Helena Urso PitassiStanley SowyDiana Gerardi ScorpioBruno Grosselli LaniaMarina Rovani DrummondTânia Cristina Benetti SoaresMaria de Lourdes Barjas-CastroEdward B BreitschwerdtWilliam L NicholsonPaulo Eduardo Neves Ferreira VelhoPublished in: Journal of clinical microbiology (2014)
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.