Q fever with clinical features resembling systemic lupus erythematosus

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 323-326

  Ohguchi, Hiroto ^a   Hirabayashi, Yasuhiko ^a   Kodera, Takao ^a   Ishii, Tomonori ^a   Munakata, Yasuhiko ^a   Sasaki, Takeshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autoantibody; Collagen disease; Coxiella burnetii

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINUCLEAR ANTIBODY; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CILASTATIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; PANIPENEM; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN ANTIBODY; SM ANTIBODY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JAPAN; LABORATORY TEST; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERICARDITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; Q FEVER; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEROLOGY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARDIOMEGALY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MINOCYCLINE; PERICARDITIS; Q FEVER; THIENAMYCINS;

EID: 33645699565     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1382     Document Type: Article

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