Q fever

M Maurin, D Raoult - Clinical microbiology reviews, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY Q fever is a zoonosis with a worldwide distribution with the exception of New
Zealand. The disease is caused by Coxiella burnetii, a strictly intracellular, gram-negative …

Q fever—a review

TJ Marrie - The Canadian veterinary journal, 1990 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Q or “query” fever is a zoonosis caused by the organism Coxiella burnetii. Cattle, sheep and
goats are the most common reservoirs of this organism. The placenta of infected animals …

Q fever endocarditis in Israel and a worldwide review

Y Siegman-Igra, O Kaufman, A Keysary… - … journal of infectious …, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
The worldwide epidemiology and population-based incidence of Q fever endocarditis (QFE)
have been less well studied than those for uncomplicated Q fever. An exhaustive literature …

[HTML][HTML] Q fever endocarditis and new Coxiella burnetii genotype, Saudi Arabia

E Angelakis, S Johani, A Ahsan, Z Memish… - Emerging Infectious …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
1. Lobo CA, Cursino-Santos JR, Alhassan A, Rodrigues M. Babesia: an emerging infectious
threat in transfusion medicine. PLoS Pathog. 2013; 9: e1003387. http://dx. doi …

A comparison of Q fever endocarditis with native valve endocarditis.

TJ Marrie - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1990 - europepmc.org
We compared 10 episodes (8 patients) of Q fever endocarditis with 27 episodes (27
patients) of native valve endocarditis. Patients with Q fever endocarditis were more likely to …

Pathogenesis of rickettsial infections emphasis on Q fever

OG Baca - European Journal of Epidemiology, 1991 - Springer
The underlying mechanisms at the organismic, cellular and molecular levels that account for
rickettsial pathogenesis are beginning to be revealed. In the case of Coxiella burnetii …

Draft genome sequence of Coxiella burnetii strain Cb196, an agent of endocarditis in Saudi Arabia

F D'Amato, C Robert, EI Azhar, PE Fournier… - Genome …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Coxiella burnetii Cb196, with a 2,006,415-bp genome, is a strain isolated from a 45-year-old
man in Saudi Arabia with endocarditis. It belongs to the genotype MST51, which was …

Chronic Q fever hepatitis complicated by extensive fibrosis

P Atienza, MJ Ramond, C Degott, D Lebrec, B Rueff… - Gastroenterology, 1988 - Elsevier
Liver involvement is common in acute and chronic Q fever and consists of nonspecific
hepatitis and granulomas without fibrosis. We report the case of a patient suffering from …

[HTML][HTML] Q-fever prosthetic valve endocarditis in a patient with SLE and antiphospholipid antibody syndrome

MH Alabdely, N Mukhtar, A Alshaikh, M Halim… - Journal of Infection and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Q fever prosthetic valve endocarditis in association with antiphospholipid antibody
syndrome (APS) in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has not been previously reported …

[PDF][PDF] Q fever endocarditis in a saudi child: a case report and literature review

A Alzahrani, T Alqarni, M Alsalmi, A Ashi, R Waggass - Cureus, 2019 - cureus.com
Q fever is a zoonotic disease that is caused by Coxiella burnetii, a gram-negative
coccobacillary bacterium. Human infection primarily occurs following the inhalation of …