Our 2007 psychiatry pioneering Bartonella research paper reports “at least eight species of Bartonella have been recognized as causing infective endocarditis in humans” including:
B. quintana
B. henselae
B. elizabethae
B. vinsonii
B. koehlerae
B. clarridgeiae
B. washoensis
B. alsatica
Schaller JL, Burkland GA, Langhoff PJ. Do bartonella infections cause agitation, panic disorder, and treatment-resistant depression? MedGenMed. 2007 Sep 13;9(3):54. PMID: 18092060; PMCID: PMC2100128.
Logan JMJ, Hall JL, Chalker VJ et al. Bartonella clarridgeiae infection in a patient with aortic root abscess and endocarditis. Access Microbiol 2019; 1:e000064.
von Loewenich FD, Seckert C, Dauber E et al. Prosthetic valve endocarditis with Bartonella washoensis in a human European patient and its detection in red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris). J Clin Microbiol 2019;58(1):10–128.
Unless the peerless elite Galaxy Diagnostics, with top world experts like Dr. Edward Breitwerdt and Dr. Ricardo Maggi are doing the media, 20,000 droplet PCR, and sequencing, I am not sure on this percent. 23 Species infect humans as we posted last year. So 15 are not involved in endocarditis? We do not need to debate it now.