Isolation of Coxiella burnetii from the blood of a patient with positive Anaplasma phagocytophilum serological results

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages 192-193

  Santos, A S ^a   de Sousa, R ^a   Alves, F ^b   Proenca P ^b   Nuncio M S ^a   Dumler, J S ^c   Bacellar, F ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL DE FARO   (Portugal)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; DOXYCYCLINE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE PLUS SALBUTAMOL SULFATE;

ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BOUTONNEUSE FEVER; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COXIELLA BURNETII; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HEADACHE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN MONOCYTIC EHRLICHIOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MONOCYTE; MYALGIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NIGHT SWEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PETECHIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; RURAL AREA; SEROCONVERSION; SPLENOMEGALY; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; COXIELLA BURNETII;

EID: 73049094254     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.02222.x     Document Type: Article

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