Q Fever Endocarditis in Northeast Iran

This report presents a case of chronic Q fever endocarditis. A 60-year-old male farmer and rancher was admitted to the hospital with symptoms of weight loss, fever, severe sweating, weakness, and anorexia. PCR was negative for C. burnetii in the blood sample, but phase I and II IgG antibodies agains...

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Autores principales: Heydari, Ali Akbar, Mostafavi, Ehsan, Heidari, Masoumeh, Latifian, Mina, Esmaeili, Saber
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8177991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34136293
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5519164
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author Heydari, Ali Akbar
Mostafavi, Ehsan
Heidari, Masoumeh
Latifian, Mina
Esmaeili, Saber
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description This report presents a case of chronic Q fever endocarditis. A 60-year-old male farmer and rancher was admitted to the hospital with symptoms of weight loss, fever, severe sweating, weakness, and anorexia. PCR was negative for C. burnetii in the blood sample, but phase I and II IgG antibodies against C. burnetii were positive (1 : 16384 and 1 : 2048, respectively) by the indirect immunofluorescent assay (IFA). According to the adjusted Duke criteria, Q fever endocarditis was confirmed, and the patient was successfully treated with doxycycline and hydroxychloroquine.
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spelling pubmed-81779912021-06-15 Q Fever Endocarditis in Northeast Iran Heydari, Ali Akbar Mostafavi, Ehsan Heidari, Masoumeh Latifian, Mina Esmaeili, Saber Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report This report presents a case of chronic Q fever endocarditis. A 60-year-old male farmer and rancher was admitted to the hospital with symptoms of weight loss, fever, severe sweating, weakness, and anorexia. PCR was negative for C. burnetii in the blood sample, but phase I and II IgG antibodies against C. burnetii were positive (1 : 16384 and 1 : 2048, respectively) by the indirect immunofluorescent assay (IFA). According to the adjusted Duke criteria, Q fever endocarditis was confirmed, and the patient was successfully treated with doxycycline and hydroxychloroquine. Hindawi 2021-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8177991/ /pubmed/34136293 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5519164 Text en Copyright © 2021 Ali Akbar Heydari et al. https://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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8177991/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5519164
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