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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2004, p. 1822-1825, Vol. 42, No. 4
0095-1137/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.4.1822-1825.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Intraocular Detection of Bartonella henselae in a Patient with HLA-B27 Uveitis

Michel Drancourt,1 Bahram Bodaghi,2 Hubert Lepidi,1 Phuc Le Hoang,2 and Didier Raoult1*

Unité des Rickettsies, CNR UMR 6020, IFR 48, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille,1 Service d'Ophtalmologie, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France2

Received 15 September 2003/ Returned for modification 28 October 2003/ Accepted 14 December 2003

Bartonella henselae uveitis was diagnosed in a 40-year-old woman with underlying HLA-B27 uveitis on the basis of immunodetection and molecular detection of the organism, a Marseilles genogroup and a CAL-1 genotype strain, in the vitreous fluid. This case illustrates that B. henselae should be included in the differential diagnosis of uveitis and the usefulness of immunodetection for rapid and specific diagnosis.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Unité des Ricketssies, Faculté de Médecine, Universite de la Mediterranee, F27 Bd. Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 5, France. Phone: 33(0)4 91 32 43 75. Fax: 33(0)4 91 83 03 90. E-mail: Didier.Raoult{at}medecine.univ-mrs.fr.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, April 2004, p. 1822-1825, Vol. 42, No. 4
0095-1137/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.4.1822-1825.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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