TRENCH FEVER

From trench fever to endocarditis.

The case of a 44 year old woman with infective endocarditis due to Bartonella quintana, an organism long recognised to cause a condition known as trench fever, is reported. This case illustrates the lengthy differential diagnosis of "culture negative" endocarditis. In addition the presence of serological cross reactivity of Bartonella spp and Chlamydia spp demonstrates the potential for misdiag...

Urban trench fever presenting as culture-negative endocarditis.

A young Russian man presented with increasing shortness of breath and signs of worsening aortic regurgitation. A diagnosis of infective endocarditis was made before emergency valve replacement. The infective cause was not discovered by routine culture but was suggested by electron microscopy and confirmed by serology and PCR testing.

Trench Fever. Report of Commission. Medical Research Committee, American Red Cross

Trench fever among homeless people in Marseille, France: a seroprevalence survey.

Trench fever disappeared in industrialised countries after the first world war. However, between 1992 and 1994, there were cases reported in industrialised countries.' Some have been reported in HIV infected patients,2 but most are among homeless people.34 Epidemiological data on Bartonella quintana infection, the transmission of which is favoured by poor housing and hygiene conditions, are sca...

Dynamically Supported Trench Topography

A viscous flow model of a subduction zone is used to calculate the near-trench deformation and topography of the overriding plate in response to tectonic and buoyancy forces. The tectonic force, which is associated with global plate motion, arises from subduction of a cold oceanic lithosphere that shears the overriding lithosphere along the contact between the two plates. The buoyancy force ari...