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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| 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 | doaj-art-67eca5b89690473f8b91de52bc8313682025-02-03T07:24:47ZengWileyCase Reports in Infectious Diseases2090-66252090-66332019-01-01201910.1155/2019/98906599890659Screening for Q Fever during Other Bacterial Endocarditis in Endemic Areas: Our Experience with Three PatientsSaid Younis0Michal Stein1Sharon Reisfeld2Internal Medicine Department D, Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Hadera, IsraelRuth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, IsraelRuth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, IsraelEndocarditis 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9890659 |
| spellingShingle | Said Younis Michal Stein Sharon Reisfeld Screening for Q Fever during Other Bacterial Endocarditis in Endemic Areas: Our Experience with Three Patients Case Reports in Infectious Diseases |
| title | Screening for Q Fever during Other Bacterial Endocarditis in Endemic Areas: Our Experience with Three Patients |
| 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 |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/9890659 |
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