Screening for Q Fever during Other Bacterial Endocarditis in Endemic Areas: Our Experience with Three Patients

Endocarditis is not a usual manifestation of acute Q fever. There is an ongoing debate about the need to screen patients for valvular diseases after acute Q fever. We present, for the first time, three patients with bacterial endocarditis from different aetiologies and a simultaneous diagnosis of ac...

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Autores principales: Younis, Said, Stein, Michal, Reisfeld, Sharon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6644233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31360560
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9890659
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description Endocarditis is not a usual manifestation of acute Q fever. There is an ongoing debate about the need to screen patients for valvular diseases after acute Q fever. We present, for the first time, three patients with bacterial endocarditis from different aetiologies and a simultaneous diagnosis of acute Q fever. All were treated with prolonged antimicrobial treatment, and none of them developed a persistent Q infection. We suggest screening patients with endocarditis from other aetiologies to Q fever.
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spelling pubmed-66442332019-07-29 Screening for Q Fever during Other Bacterial Endocarditis in Endemic Areas: Our Experience with Three Patients Younis, Said Stein, Michal Reisfeld, Sharon Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report Endocarditis is not a usual manifestation of acute Q fever. There is an ongoing debate about the need to screen patients for valvular diseases after acute Q fever. We present, for the first time, three patients with bacterial endocarditis from different aetiologies and a simultaneous diagnosis of acute Q fever. All were treated with prolonged antimicrobial treatment, and none of them developed a persistent Q infection. We suggest screening patients with endocarditis from other aetiologies to Q fever. Hindawi 2019-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6644233/ /pubmed/31360560 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9890659 Text en Copyright © 2019 Said Younis et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Screening for Q Fever during Other Bacterial Endocarditis in Endemic Areas: Our Experience with Three Patients
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title_full Screening for Q Fever during Other Bacterial Endocarditis in Endemic Areas: Our Experience with Three Patients
title_fullStr Screening for Q Fever during Other Bacterial Endocarditis in Endemic Areas: Our Experience with Three Patients
title_full_unstemmed Screening for Q Fever during Other Bacterial Endocarditis in Endemic Areas: Our Experience with Three Patients
title_short Screening for Q Fever during Other Bacterial Endocarditis in Endemic Areas: Our Experience with Three Patients
title_sort screening for q fever during other bacterial endocarditis in endemic areas: our experience with three patients
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6644233/
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