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Comment
. 2017 May;23(5):856-857.
doi: 10.3201/eid2305.151159.

No Such Thing as Chronic Q Fever

Matthieu Million, Didier Raoult
Comment

No Such Thing as Chronic Q Fever

Matthieu Million et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2017 May.

Abstract

Modern diagnostic methods enable clinicians to look beyond a diagnosis of chronic Q fever and discern whether patients instead have persistent focalized Coxiella burnetii infection(s). Use of these methods and development of criteria to define and treat such infections, especially cardiovascular infections, will improve the prognosis for patients previously thought to have chronic Q fever.

Keywords: Coxiella burnetii; France; Q fever; antimicrobial drug prophylaxis; bacteria; cardiovascular infections; chronic Q Fever; endocarditis; persistent focalized Coxiella burnetii infection; systematic echocardiography; the Netherlands; treatment; valvulopathy.

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