Chronic Q fever-related dual-pathogen endocarditis: Case series of three patients

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1692-1694

  Kampschreur, Linda M ^a   Oosterheert, Jan Jelrik ^a   De Vries Feyens, Cornelia A ^b   Delsing, Corine E ^c   Hermans, Mirjam H A ^b   Van Sluisveld, Ingrid L L ^d   Lestrade, Peter J ^b   Renders, Nicole H M ^b   Elsman, Peter ^b   Wever, Peter C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b JEROEN BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d De Peperstoep ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; DOXYCYCLINE; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G;

AGED; ANTIBODY TITER; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; COXIELLA BURNETII; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PAROXYSMAL DYSPNEA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SALIVARIUS; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; Q FEVER; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COXIELLA BURNETII;

EID: 79953885138     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02596-10     Document Type: Article

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