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JOURNAL OF FELINE MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 483-486Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfms.2009.12.018
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- State of North Carolina
- American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Foundation
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This report describes the clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment of a cat with vegetative valvular endocarditis temporally associated with natural infection with Bartonella henselae. Lethargy, abnormal gait and weakness were the main clinical signs that resulted in referral for diagnostic evaluation. Using a novel and sensitive culture approach, B henselae was isolated from the blood. Following antibiotic therapy there was total resolution of clinical signs, the heart murmur, the valvular lesion by echocardiography, and no Bartunella species was isolated or amplified from a post-treatment blood culture. In conjunction with previous case reports, infective endocarditis can be associated with natural B henselae infection in cats; however, early diagnosis and treatment may result in a better prognosis than previously reported. (C) 2010 ISFM and AAFP. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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