Prolonged pyrexia and hepatitis: Q fever

Am J Med. 2014 Oct;127(10):928-30. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2014.06.003. Epub 2014 Jun 12.

Authors

Caitlin Dugdale¹, Brian Chow², Evgeny Yakirevich³, Erna Kojic², Bettina Knoll²

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI. Electronic address: cdugdale@lifespan.org.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI.
³ Department of Pathology, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI.

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Animals
Animals, Domestic / microbiology
Biopsy
Bone Marrow / diagnostic imaging
Bone Marrow / pathology
Coxiella burnetii / isolation & purification*
Disease Reservoirs / microbiology
Fever of Unknown Origin / etiology*
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Granuloma / diagnostic imaging
Granuloma / etiology
Headache / etiology
Hepatitis / etiology
Humans
Inhalation Exposure
Liver / diagnostic imaging
Liver / pathology
Male
Nausea / etiology
Positron-Emission Tomography
Q Fever / complications
Q Fever / diagnosis*
Q Fever / pathology
Tachycardia / etiology
Transaminases / blood
Vomiting / etiology
Zoonoses / microbiology

Substances

Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Transaminases