Bartonella as a cause of blood culture-negative endocarditis. Description of five cases.

There is evidence that Bartonella is an etiologic factor in human endocarditis. The objective of this article was to describe cases of endocarditis due to Bartonella observed at a tertiary-care hospital during 1995-2006. Overall, 140 cases of infective endocarditis were seen, of which 10 were blood culture-negative endocarditis, with five being due to Bartonella.

[Amoebic liver abscess: observations in seven patients].

Introduction: The epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients with amoebic liver abscess are described.

Methods: Laboratory, clinical, and epidemiological records of all patients with amoebic liver abscess diagnosed from 1991 to 2002 at Hospital Universitario Son Dureta (Palma de Mallorca, Spain), a 980-bed referral hospital in the Balearic Islands, were retrospectively reviewed.

Results: Seven patients were diagnosed with amoebic liver abscesses and all were residing in Mallorca.