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Provedor de dados: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
País: | Brazil
Título: | Association of Bartonella spp bacteremia with Chagas cardiomyopathy, endocarditis and arrythmias in patients from South America
Autores: | Corrêa,F.G.; Pontes,C.L.S.; Verzola,R.M.M.; Mateos,J.C.P.; Velho,P.E.N.F.; Schijman,A.G.; Selistre-de-Araujo,H.S.
Data: | 2012-07-01
Ano: | 2012
Palavras-chave: | Human; PCR; Bartonella spp; Chagas disease; Endocarditis; Arrhythmia.
Resumo: | Infection with Bartonella spp may cause cardiac arrhythmias, myocarditis and endocarditis in humans. The aim of the present study was to evaluate a possible association between Bartonella spp bacteremia and endocarditis, arrhythmia and Chagas cardiomyopathy in patients from Brazil and Argentina. We screened for the presence of bacterial 16S rRNA in human blood by PCR using oligonucleotides to amplify a 185-bp bacterial DNA fragment. Blood samples were taken from four groups of subjects in Brazil and Argentina: i) control patients without clinical disease, ii) patients with negative blood-culture endocarditis, iii) patients with arrhythmias, and iv) patients with chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy. PCR products were analyzed on 1.5% agarose gel to visualize the 185-bp fragment and then sequenced to confirm the identity of DNA. Sixty of 148 patients (40.5%) with cardiac disease and 1 of 56 subjects (1.8%) from the control group presented positive PCR amplification for Bartonella spp, suggesting a positive association of the bacteria with these diseases. Separate analysis of the four groups showed that the risk of a Brazilian patient with endocarditis being infected with Bartonella was 22 times higher than in the controls. In arrhythmic patients, the prevalence of infection was 45 times higher when compared to the same controls and 40 times higher for patients with Chagas cardiomyopathy. To the best of our knowledge this is the first report of the association between Bartonella spp bacteremia and Chagas disease. The present data may be useful for epidemiological and prevention studies in Brazil and Argentina.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2012000700012
Editor: | Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
Relação: | 10.1590/S0100-879X2012007500082
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research  v.45 n.7 2012
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess