Chronic Q Fever Endocarditis in an Omani Child: The First Pediatric Case Report from Oman

Q fever endocarditis is the most common presentation of chronic infection of Coxiella burnetii, but it rarely occurs in the pediatric age group. We report the first case of Q fever endocarditis in an Omani child. The affected 11-year-old female lives in the Al Batinah governorate in the north of Oma...

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Autores principales: Al-Araimi, Hanaa A., Al-Alawi, Khalid, Al-Jardani, Amina K., Paul, George, Al-Sukaiti, Nashat, Al-Farqani, Abdullah, Al-Maani, Amal S.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: OMJ 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7548047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33083038
http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2020.121
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author Al-Araimi, Hanaa A.
Al-Alawi, Khalid
Al-Jardani, Amina K.
Paul, George
Al-Sukaiti, Nashat
Al-Farqani, Abdullah
Al-Maani, Amal S.
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Al-Alawi, Khalid
Al-Jardani, Amina K.
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Al-Sukaiti, Nashat
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description Q fever endocarditis is the most common presentation of chronic infection of Coxiella burnetii, but it rarely occurs in the pediatric age group. We report the first case of Q fever endocarditis in an Omani child. The affected 11-year-old female lives in the Al Batinah governorate in the north of Oman and was known to have congenital heart disease. She presented with features of chronic blood culture-negative endocarditis. The C. burnetii infection was confirmed with the indirect immunofluorescence assay. The patient responded well to a combination of doxycycline and hydroxychloroquine therapy.
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spelling pubmed-75480472020-10-19 Chronic Q Fever Endocarditis in an Omani Child: The First Pediatric Case Report from Oman Al-Araimi, Hanaa A. Al-Alawi, Khalid Al-Jardani, Amina K. Paul, George Al-Sukaiti, Nashat Al-Farqani, Abdullah Al-Maani, Amal S. Oman Med J Case Report Q fever endocarditis is the most common presentation of chronic infection of Coxiella burnetii, but it rarely occurs in the pediatric age group. We report the first case of Q fever endocarditis in an Omani child. The affected 11-year-old female lives in the Al Batinah governorate in the north of Oman and was known to have congenital heart disease. She presented with features of chronic blood culture-negative endocarditis. The C. burnetii infection was confirmed with the indirect immunofluorescence assay. The patient responded well to a combination of doxycycline and hydroxychloroquine therapy. OMJ 2020-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7548047/ /pubmed/33083038 http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2020.121 Text en The OMJ is Published Bimonthly and Copyrighted 2020 by the OMSB. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Al-Jardani, Amina K.
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Al-Farqani, Abdullah
Al-Maani, Amal S.
Chronic Q Fever Endocarditis in an Omani Child: The First Pediatric Case Report from Oman
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5001/omj.2020.121
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