Chronic Q fever
CXCL9, a promising biomarker in the diagnosis of chronic Q fever
... acute Q fever, patients with a history of cured acute Q fever (past Q fever), and patients with chronic Q fever ...Q fever. Healthy controls ...
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High Coxiella burnetii DNA Load in Serum during Acute Q Fever Is Associated with Progression to a Serologic Profile Indicative of Chronic Q Fever
... acute Q fever were performed according to the diagnostic algorithm that was established in our laboratory in 2009 ...acute Q fever, follow-up samples were re- quested at 3, 6, and 12 months, ...
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Prevalence of Chronic Q Fever in Patients with a History of Cardiac Valve Surgery in an Area Where Coxiella burnetii Is Epidemic
... Q fever is a zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii, an intracellu- lar Gram-negative ...coccobacillus. Q fever has acute and chronic manifestations. Acute Q fever mostly ...
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Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay for diagnosis of chronic Q fever
... burnetii phases I and II obtained with ELISA IgG, IgM, IgA in patients with chronic Q fever each bar represents one individual and in acute Q fever each bar represents average titer of t[r] ...
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Chronic Q Fever with No Elevation of Inflammatory Markers: A Case Report
... diagnosis. The serologic evaluation was performed by Indi- rect Immunofluorescence Assay (IFA) using the commercial C. burnetii I+II IgG/A/M Immunofluorescence kit (Vircell Microbiologists, Granada, Spain). It revealed a ...
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Dysregulation of Serum Gamma Interferon Levels in Vascular Chronic Q Fever Patients Provides Insights into Disease Pathogenesis
... Query fever (Q fever), which lasted from 2007 to 2010, took place in the Netherlands ...2009. Q fever is a zoonotic infection caused by the omnipresent Gram-negative obligate ...
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The value of fdg-pet/ct in diagnosis and during follow-up of 271 patients suspected of chronic q fever.
... that 18 F-FDG-PET/CT showed a vascular infection in 6 out of 13 patients with proven chronic Q fever based on 217. positive PCR for C[r] ...
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Acute and probable chronic Q fever during anti TNFα and anti B cell immunotherapy: a case report
... of chronic Q ...no fever, night-sweats or cardiac ...‘probable chronic Q fever’ was made [13] and the patient was started on doxycycline 200 mg daily com- bined with ...
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Chronic Q Fever in the United States
... of Q fever vary ...Acute Q fever, which develops after an incu- bation period of 2 to 5 weeks, is usually characterized by a nonspecific febrile illness, pneumonitis, or ...acute Q ...
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Chronic Q Fever in the Netherlands 5 Years after the Start of the Q Fever Epidemic: Results from the Dutch Chronic Q Fever Database
... that chronic Q fever can develop in approximately 1 to 5% of ...all chronic Q fever cases, and vascular chronic Q fever, consisting of infections of vascular ...
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Localizing chronic Q fever: a challenging query
... A complete diagnostic work-up was performed in 9 patients (64%) (Table 3). Two patients were asymptom- atic and considered low-risk, 1 patient refused further analysis because of co-morbidity, and in 2 patients FDG- ...
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Q fever in pregnant goats: humoral and cellular immune responses
... C. burnetii is a Gram-negative, intracellular bacterium. As in other Gram-negative bacteria (e.g. Brucella spp. and Enterobacteriaceae spp.), two major phenotypes (phases) of C. burnetii are recognised. Phase 1 of C. ...
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Molecular Detection of Coxiella burnetii in the Sera of Patients with Q Fever Endocarditis or Vascular Infection
... evolutive chronic Q fever were also included in our ...with chronic Q fever, we prospectively tested 30 sera from 30 patients treated for Q fever endocarditis for 1 ...
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New Criteria for Immunofluorescence Assay for Q Fever Diagnosis in Japan
... Q fever is a zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii, an obligate intracellular rickettsial ...of Q fever are readily divided into acute and chronic ...acute Q fever in human ...
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The Qure study: Q fever fatigue syndrome – response to treatment; a randomized placebo controlled trial
... The Qure study will be the first randomized placebo- controlled clinical trial to assess the efficacy of long-term treatment with doxycycline and CBT in adult patients with QFS. A limited amount of previous uncontrolled ...
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Candidate Antigens for Q Fever Serodiagnosis Revealed by Immunoscreening of a Coxiella burnetii Protein Microarray
... and chronic Q fever patients, respectively, that tested positive for ...acute Q fever ...and chronic Q fever patients (boxes), respectively, that tested positive ...
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A Case of Pediatric Q Fever Osteomyelitis Managed Without Antibiotics
... Q fever osteomyelitis, caused by infection with Coxiella burnetti, is rare but should be included in the differential diagnosis of children with culture- negative osteomyelitis, particularly if there is a ...
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Recent Updates on Q Fever: Diagnosis and Treatment
... Coxiella burnetii can infect a large number of animal species including livestock. These animals rarely become systemically ill from Coxiella burnetii, but abortion and stillbirths may occur. Endocarditis, the major form ...
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Q Fever in Pregnancy—Case Presentation and Literature Review
... Q fever is a widespread zoonotic infection caused by Coxiella ...hepatits. Chronic infection almost al- ways implies ...acute Q fever infection during ...and chronic Q ...
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Diagnosis of Q Fever
... acute Q fever and the IgG/ IgM ratio based on a single serum, but these data were too imprecise to be ...possible chronic Q ...acute Q fever or a prolonged and unexplained ...
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