Endocarditis - Q fever
Persistence of DNA in a Cured Patient and Positive Culture in Cases with Low Antibody Levels Bring into Question Diagnosis of Q Fever Endocarditis
... Q fever is a ubiquitous zoonosis caused by infection with Cox- iella burnetii, an obligate intracellular bacterium that can cause Q fever infections in humans ...isolated fever, ...
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Q fever endocarditis masquerading as Mixed cryoglobulinemia type II A case report and review of the literature
... [1]. Endocarditis is consisting 16–73% of all chronic Q fever, being so the major clinical ...of Q fever endocarditis (8 months in our patient's case) is not unusual due to the ...
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Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) and Peptide Nucleic Acid Probe Based FISH for Diagnosis of Q Fever Endocarditis and Vascular Infections
... knowledge, this study is the first to evaluate the efficacy of FISH and PNA FISH for the diagnosis of Q fever endocarditis and vascular infections in a series of samples. Previously published studies ...
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Molecular Detection of Coxiella burnetii in the Sera of Patients with Q Fever Endocarditis or Vascular Infection
... chronic Q fever were also included in our ...chronic Q fever, we prospectively tested 30 sera from 30 patients treated for Q fever endocarditis for 1 month or more with ...
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Isolation of Coxiella burnetii from heart valves of patients treated for Q fever endocarditis
... ever, the true incidence of cardiac involvement following C. burnetii infection is unknown and may be higher than sus- pected regarding the uncharacteristic clinical manifestations of this disease. It is generally ...
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Infective Endocarditis with Negative Cultures: A Defiant Diagnosis
... burnetii, a single IgG antibody titer 1:800 is considered major criteria (as seen in our case study). Endocarditis Q fever is characterized by high titers of antigen phase I and II of C. burnetii, ...
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Q Fever in Pregnancy—Case Presentation and Literature Review
... Q fever is a widespread zoonotic infection caused by Coxiella ...acute Q fever infection during ...chronic Q fever during ...
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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
... Chronic Q fever develops in 1 to 5% of patients infected with Coxiella ...chronic Q fever endocarditis has been estimated to be ⬃39% in case of preexisting valvulopathy and is ...
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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 ...
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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
... chronic Q fever can develop in approximately 1 to 5% of ...are endocarditis, which ac- cording to the literature accounts for approximately 75% of all chronic Q fever cases, and ...
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Proteomics paves the way for Q fever diagnostics
... for Q fever ...of Q fever or to characterize the proteome of ...with endocarditis (chronic Q fever) or from a variety of other samples such as blood or rhinopharyngeal ...
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Long-Term Immune Responses to Coxiella burnetii after Vaccination
... C oxiella burnetii infection of humans causes Q fever, a flu-like illness whose symptoms typically include fever, headache, and myalgia (1). In some cases, pneumonia and/or hepatitis can be present. ...
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Localizing chronic Q fever: a challenging query
... chronic Q fever, only 1 patient had an infected vascular prosthesis and definite IE at the same ...chronic Q fever remains largely unclear, and prob- ably results from a combination of ...of ...
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Diagnosis of Q Fever
... acute Q fever, an- tibodies to phase II antigens predominate, and their titer is higher than the phase I antibody ...acute Q fever and titers of anti-phase I IgG $800 for the diagnosis of ...
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Chronic Q Fever with No Elevation of Inflammatory Markers: A Case Report
... Widal and Huddlesson reactions and research of Plasmodium sppwere negative as well. Two sets of blood culture speci- mens exhibited no growth. Protein electrophoresis showed IgG-K/ λ monoclonal hypergammaglobulinemia. ...
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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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Multispacer Typing Technique for Sequence Based Typing of Bartonella quintana
... Trench fever, occurring in al- lied and German troops during World War I, was the first dis- ease recognized to be caused by ...relapsing fever or quintan fever characterized by attacks of ...
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Major Outbreak of Toxic Shock Like Syndrome Caused by Streptococcus mitis
... Participants. Haian People’s Hospital, a 300-bed facility in Haian County, serves a population of 950,000. From October 1990 to May 1998, all hospitalized patients who met the case definition of fever, ...
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Review of Kawasaki Disease
... prevalence of the disease across the globe. 1,2,3 Patients present with nonspecific symptoms, such as fever and lymphadenopathy, making the diagnosis challenging. 3 Kawasaki disease can have serious and ...
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Q fever serology: cutoff determination for microimmunofluorescence.
... We report here the various cutoff titers and the kinetics of antibody development from 2,218 first serum samples of patients, among whom 208 suffered from acute Q fever and 53 had chroni[r] ...
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