Bartonella spp. Antibodies in Forensic Samples from Swedish Heroin Addicts

• Published in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 990; no. 1; pp. 409 - 413
• Main Authors: McGILL, SVENA, HJELM, EVA, RAJS, JOVAN, LINDQUIST, OLLE, FRIMAN, GÖRAN
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-06-2003
• Subjects: Adult; Antigens, Bacterial - blood; Autopsy; Bartonella; Bartonella - immunology; Bartonella - isolation & purification; Bartonella Infections - diagnosis; Bartonella spp; Bartonella/immunology/isolation & purification; Female; Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect; Forensic Medicine; heroin addicts; Heroin Dependence - microbiology; Heroin Dependence - mortality; Heroin Dependence/microbiology/mortality; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; IV drug users; Male; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; myocarditis; Stockholm; Substance Abuse, Intravenous - microbiology; Sweden; Sweden; Antigens; Indirect; Intravenous/microbiology; Substance Abuse; Bacterial/blood; Fluorescent Antibody Technique
• ISBN: 9781573314442; 1573314447
• ISSN: 0077-8923; 1749-6632
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2003.tb07402.x

: A high frequency of Bartonella elizabethae seropositivity (39%) was recorded among intravenous heroin addicts in Stockholm, Sweden, who died from a lethal injection. Some of the B. elizabethae‐seropositive individuals also had antibodies to B. henselae Houston‐1, B. grahamii, and B. quintana, but none had antibodies to B. henselae Marseille or B. vinsonii subsp. vinsonii. Hepatitis was a frequent finding but no case had peliosis hepatitis. There was no case of endocarditis, but in three persons active subacute‐to‐chronic myocarditis was found; two of these cases were Bartonella‐positive and HIV‐negative.