Acute hepatitis associated with Q fever in a man in Greece: a case report

Coxiella burnetii is the causative agent of Q fever. Q fever is a worldwide zoonosis that is responsible for various clinical manifestations. However, in Greece hepatitis due to Coxiella is rarely encountered. A case of Q fever associated with hepatitis is reported here. Diagnosis was made by specif...

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Autores principales: Pape, Magdalini, Xanthis, Andreas, Hatzitolios, Apostolos, Mandraveli, Kalliopi, Savopoulos, Christos, Alexiou-Daniel, Stella
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2170449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18042291
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-154
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author Pape, Magdalini
Xanthis, Andreas
Hatzitolios, Apostolos
Mandraveli, Kalliopi
Savopoulos, Christos
Alexiou-Daniel, Stella
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Xanthis, Andreas
Hatzitolios, Apostolos
Mandraveli, Kalliopi
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description Coxiella burnetii is the causative agent of Q fever. Q fever is a worldwide zoonosis that is responsible for various clinical manifestations. However, in Greece hepatitis due to Coxiella is rarely encountered. A case of Q fever associated with hepatitis is reported here. Diagnosis was made by specific serological investigation (enzyme-linked immunosorbent and indirect immunofluorescene assays) for Coxiella burnetii.
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spelling pubmed-21704492008-01-01 Acute hepatitis associated with Q fever in a man in Greece: a case report Pape, Magdalini Xanthis, Andreas Hatzitolios, Apostolos Mandraveli, Kalliopi Savopoulos, Christos Alexiou-Daniel, Stella J Med Case Reports Case Report Coxiella burnetii is the causative agent of Q fever. Q fever is a worldwide zoonosis that is responsible for various clinical manifestations. However, in Greece hepatitis due to Coxiella is rarely encountered. A case of Q fever associated with hepatitis is reported here. Diagnosis was made by specific serological investigation (enzyme-linked immunosorbent and indirect immunofluorescene assays) for Coxiella burnetii. BioMed Central 2007-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2170449/ /pubmed/18042291 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-154 Text en Copyright © 2007 Pape et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pape, Magdalini
Xanthis, Andreas
Hatzitolios, Apostolos
Mandraveli, Kalliopi
Savopoulos, Christos
Alexiou-Daniel, Stella
Acute hepatitis associated with Q fever in a man in Greece: a case report
title Acute hepatitis associated with Q fever in a man in Greece: a case report
title_full Acute hepatitis associated with Q fever in a man in Greece: a case report
title_fullStr Acute hepatitis associated with Q fever in a man in Greece: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Acute hepatitis associated with Q fever in a man in Greece: a case report
title_short Acute hepatitis associated with Q fever in a man in Greece: a case report
title_sort acute hepatitis associated with q fever in a man in greece: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2170449/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18042291
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-154
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