Pulmonary Valve Prosthesis Endocarditis Caused By Coxiella burnetii

Background   Coxiella burnetii is a gram-negative bacterium assigned to the family of Rickettsiaceae . Less than 1% of Q-fever infection leads to infective endocarditis (IE). Cases of reported pulmonary valve (PV) prosthesis endocarditis are scarce. Case Description  A patient with a PV prosthesis e...

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Autores principales: Kremer, Jamila, Mutters, Nico Tom, Karck, Matthias, Last, Katharina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2018
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6264925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30505643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1675841
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author Kremer, Jamila
Mutters, Nico Tom
Karck, Matthias
Last, Katharina
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description Background   Coxiella burnetii is a gram-negative bacterium assigned to the family of Rickettsiaceae . Less than 1% of Q-fever infection leads to infective endocarditis (IE). Cases of reported pulmonary valve (PV) prosthesis endocarditis are scarce. Case Description  A patient with a PV prosthesis endocarditis caused by Coxiella burnetii was seeking asylum in Germany. Prosthesis replacement was performed. All obtained blood cultures showed no growth as well as microbiological cultures of the prosthetic valve tissue. A polymerase chain reaction analysis on the explanted prosthesis detected DNA of Coxiella spp. Conclusion  Diagnosing IE caused by Coxiella burnetii requires an interdisciplinary effort from both clinicians and microbiologists.
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spelling pubmed-62649252018-11-30 Pulmonary Valve Prosthesis Endocarditis Caused By Coxiella burnetii Kremer, Jamila Mutters, Nico Tom Karck, Matthias Last, Katharina Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Rep Background   Coxiella burnetii is a gram-negative bacterium assigned to the family of Rickettsiaceae . Less than 1% of Q-fever infection leads to infective endocarditis (IE). Cases of reported pulmonary valve (PV) prosthesis endocarditis are scarce. Case Description  A patient with a PV prosthesis endocarditis caused by Coxiella burnetii was seeking asylum in Germany. Prosthesis replacement was performed. All obtained blood cultures showed no growth as well as microbiological cultures of the prosthetic valve tissue. A polymerase chain reaction analysis on the explanted prosthesis detected DNA of Coxiella spp. Conclusion  Diagnosing IE caused by Coxiella burnetii requires an interdisciplinary effort from both clinicians and microbiologists. Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2018-01 2018-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6264925/ /pubmed/30505643 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1675841 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pulmonary Valve Prosthesis Endocarditis Caused By Coxiella burnetii
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title_full Pulmonary Valve Prosthesis Endocarditis Caused By Coxiella burnetii
title_fullStr Pulmonary Valve Prosthesis Endocarditis Caused By Coxiella burnetii
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary Valve Prosthesis Endocarditis Caused By Coxiella burnetii
title_short Pulmonary Valve Prosthesis Endocarditis Caused By Coxiella burnetii
title_sort pulmonary valve prosthesis endocarditis caused by coxiella burnetii
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6264925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30505643
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