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Intracellular Pathogens Research Laboratory, Center for
Comparative Medicine and Translational Research, College of
Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
(E.B. Breitschwerdt, R.G. Maggi, P. E. Mascarelli), and the
Department of Pathology, North Shore University Hospital, 300
Community Drive, Manhasset, New York (P. Farmer).

Bartonella vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii, Bartonella henselae or DNA
of both organisms was amplified and sequenced from blood,
enrichment blood cultures or autopsy tissues from four family
members. Historical and microbiological results support perinatal
transmission of Bartonella species in this family.