Results 21 to 30 of about 385,754 (304)

An Overlooked Zoonotic Disease: Retrospective Evaluation of Q Fever Seropositivity with Clinical Findings

Mediterranean Journal of Infection, Microbes and Antimicrobials, 2022
Introduction: Q fever is a zoonotic disease with a high seroprevalence in our region and a low awareness in our country. Patients who were diagnosed as having Q fever clinically, serologically, and radiologically during 2017-2020 were evaluated ...
Fatma SIRMATEL, Selçuk KILIÇ, Oya KALAYCIOĞLU, Pınar BÜCÜK, Talat Oğulcan ÖZARSLAN, Tuğçe DAMARSOY, Hasan Tahsin GÖZDAŞ   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Profiling Risk Factors for Household and Community Spatiotemporal Clusters of Q Fever Notifications in Queensland between 2002 and 2017

Pathogens, 2022
Q fever, caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii, is an important zoonotic disease worldwide. Australia has one of the highest reported incidences and seroprevalence of Q fever, and communities in the state of Queensland are at highest risk of exposure.
Tatiana Proboste, Nicholas J. Clark, Sarah Tozer, Caitlin Wood, Stephen B. Lambert, Ricardo J. Soares Magalhães   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Q fever endocarditis masquerading as Mixed cryoglobulinemia type II. A case report and review of the literature [PDF]

, 2006
Background The clinical manifestations of Q fever endocarditis are protean in nature. Mixed cryoglobulinemia type II is rarely a facet of the presenting clinical manifestations of Q fever endocarditis.
Petros I Rafailidis, Spiros P Dourakis, Christos A Fourlas, D Raoult, Y Siegman-Igra, A Stein, PE Fournier, P Houpikian, P Brouqui, H Torley, RJ Enzenauer, H Coponat-Vacher, M Ghassemi, B Granel, P Bichard, JV Graham, EF Berbari, BI Lev, TJ Marrie, D Raoult   +19 more
core   +1 more source

Q fever endocarditis in Iran: A case report

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2015
Summary: In this report, we describe the first chronic case of Q fever endocarditis in a 72-year-old woman in Iran. The patient developed radiation-associated heart disease status post (s/p) coronary artery bypass surgery, mitral and aortic valve ...
Farhad Yaghmaie, Saber Esmaeili, Sanjeev A. Francis, Ehsan Mostafavi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Q Fever Chronic Osteomyelitis in Two Children [PDF]

, 2015
We report 2 cases of chronic Q fever osteomyelitis in 10- and 5-year-old girls who presented with distal right femoral and left parasternal granulomatous osteomyelitis, respectively. Both were treated with ciprofloxacin and rifampin with good response. Q
Costa, B, Gouveia, C, Morais, A, Santos, AS, Seves, G, Tavares, D   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Pediatric Q Fever

Current Infectious Disease Reports, 2020
The non-specific presentation of acute Q fever makes it difficult to diagnose in children, but untreated Q fever can result in chronic infections that have severe complications.Pediatric Q fever cases continue to be infrequently reported in the literature, and primarily document cases of persistent infections with Coxiella burnetii.
Cara C, Cherry, Gilbert J, Kersh
openaire   +3 more sources

The prevalence of Francisella spp. in different natural surface water samples collected from northwest of Iran

Iranian Journal of Microbiology, 2019
Background and Objectives: Francisella tularensis has a wide distribution in northern hemisphere of the world. Up to now, there was little information about the Francisella spp. situation in the environmental samples in Iran.
Mahdi Rohani, Abdolrazagh Hashemi Shahraki, Ahmad Ghasemi, Saber Esmaeili, Aynur Karadenizli, Ehsan Mostafavi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of a new serological test for the detection of anti-Coxiella and anti-Rickettsia antibodies. [PDF]

, 2015
Coxiella burnetii and members of the genus Rickettsia are obligate intracellular bacteria. Since cultivation of these organisms requires dedicated techniques, their diagnosis usually relies on serological or molecular biology methods.
Baud, D., Bizzini, A., Edouard, S., Greub, G., Meylan, P., Péter, O.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Q Fever Endocarditis in Iran

Scientific Reports, 2019
Patients with the underlying valvular heart disease are at the high risk of developing sub-acute or chronic endocarditis secondary to Coxiella burnetii. Q fever endocarditis is the most common manifestation along with persistent the infection.
Pardis Moradnejad, Saber Esmaeili, Majid Maleki, Anita Sadeghpour, Monireh Kamali, Mahdi Rohani, Ahmad Ghasemi, Fahimeh Bagheri Amiri, Hamid Reza Pasha, Shabnam Boudagh, Hooman Bakhshandeh, Nasim Naderi, Behshid Ghadrdoost, Sara Lotfian, Seyed Ali Dehghan Manshadi, Ehsan Mostafavi   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prerequisites, barriers and opportunities in care for Q-fever patients: a Delphi study among healthcare workers

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Q-fever is a zoonotic disease that can lead to illness, disability and death. This study aimed to provide insight into the perspectives of healthcare workers (HCWs) on prerequisites, barriers and opportunities in care for Q-fever patients ...
Iris M. Brus, Inge Spronk, Juanita A. Haagsma, Vicki Erasmus, Annemieke de Groot, Alfons G. M. Olde Loohuis, Madelon B. Bronner, Suzanne Polinder   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source