Acute Q Fever in an Ankylosing Spondyloarthritis Patient Treated with Etanercept

Q fever is a rare zoonotic infection caused by Coxiella burnetii. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) has an important role in the early control of this infection. However, TNF-α blockers increase the risk of infectious diseases. We present herein a patient who developed acute Q fever under anti-TNF...

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Autores principales: Guiga, A., Khalifa, D., Ben Yahia, W., El Amri, N., Atig, A., Ghannouchi, N.
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/PMC8187044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34158982
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9944387
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author Guiga, A.
Khalifa, D.
Ben Yahia, W.
El Amri, N.
Atig, A.
Ghannouchi, N.
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description Q fever is a rare zoonotic infection caused by Coxiella burnetii. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) has an important role in the early control of this infection. However, TNF-α blockers increase the risk of infectious diseases. We present herein a patient who developed acute Q fever under anti-TNF-α who had a good evolution after anti-TNF stoppage and treatment with doxycycline.
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spelling pubmed-81870442021-06-21 Acute Q Fever in an Ankylosing Spondyloarthritis Patient Treated with Etanercept Guiga, A. Khalifa, D. Ben Yahia, W. El Amri, N. Atig, A. Ghannouchi, N. Case Rep Rheumatol Case Report Q fever is a rare zoonotic infection caused by Coxiella burnetii. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) has an important role in the early control of this infection. However, TNF-α blockers increase the risk of infectious diseases. We present herein a patient who developed acute Q fever under anti-TNF-α who had a good evolution after anti-TNF stoppage and treatment with doxycycline. Hindawi 2021-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8187044/ /pubmed/34158982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9944387 Text en Copyright © 2021 A. Guiga 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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Guiga, A.
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El Amri, N.
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Acute Q Fever in an Ankylosing Spondyloarthritis Patient Treated with Etanercept
title Acute Q Fever in an Ankylosing Spondyloarthritis Patient Treated with Etanercept
title_full Acute Q Fever in an Ankylosing Spondyloarthritis Patient Treated with Etanercept
title_fullStr Acute Q Fever in an Ankylosing Spondyloarthritis Patient Treated with Etanercept
title_full_unstemmed Acute Q Fever in an Ankylosing Spondyloarthritis Patient Treated with Etanercept
title_short Acute Q Fever in an Ankylosing Spondyloarthritis Patient Treated with Etanercept
title_sort acute q fever in an ankylosing spondyloarthritis patient treated with etanercept
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8187044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34158982
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9944387
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