Q fever endocarditis and new Coxiella burnetii genotype, Saudi Arabia

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 726-727

  Angelakis, Emmanouil ^a   Johani, Sameer ^b   Ahsan, Azeem ^c   Memish, Ziad ^d   Raoult, Didier ^a,b  

^a Unité de Recherche Sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Émergentes   (France)

^b KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^c KING FAHAD MEDICAL CITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ASTHENIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENDOCARDITIS; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LETTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; Q FEVER; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAUDI ARABIA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; ZOONOSIS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; COXIELLA BURNETII; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; Q FEVER; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84896467961     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2004.131603     Document Type: Letter

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