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Bartonella quintana was grown from a lysiscentrifugation blood culture of an HIV-positive man who presented with lesions of bacillary angiomatosis in skin and bones. The isolate was identified by sodium dodecylsulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, 16S rRNA gene sequencing, and amplification of the enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus sequences.
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Schmidt, H.U., Kaliebe, T., Poppinger, J. et al. Isolation ofBartonella quintana from an HIV-positive patient with bacillary angiomatosis. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 15, 736–741 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01691961
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