Coxiella burnetii vascular graft infection

Coxiella burnetii vascular graft infection

BACKGROUND Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent of Q fever, may cause culture-negative vascular graft infections. Very few cases of C. burnetii infection of a vascular graft have been reported. All were diagnosed by serology. CASE PRESENTATION We report the first case of Coxiella burnetii vascular graft infection diagnosed by broad-range PCR and discuss the diagnostic approaches and treatme...

Coxiella burnetii vascular graft infection: Case report

Coxiella burnetii Infection in Hemodialysis and Other Vascular Grafts

Prosthetic arteriovenous (AV) graft infection is the principal cause of morbidity related to chronic hemodialysis AV graft fistula. Coxiella burnetii is a known pathogen that causes fever, pneumonia, and intravascular infections with the limitation of negative cultures. Herein, we report the first case of a patient who presented to the emergency department of our hospital with a prosthetic hemo...

Coxiella burnetii

Q fever has been described for the first time in 1935 as an outbreak of fever in workers of a slaughterhouse in Brisbane, Australia (Derrick, 1937). Derrick could not identify the aetiological agent therefore he defined the disease as “query fever”. Afterwards, in 1937, Burnet and Freeman (Burnet & Freeman, 1937) isolated a troublesome intracellular pathogen from mice inoculated with blood or f...

Secondary Aortoesophageal Fistula Associated With Aneurysmal Graft Infection by Coxiella burnetii.

Aortoesophageal fistula is a rare and serious condition that carries a high mortality rate. We present a case of overt gastrointestinal bleeding from an aortoesophageal fistula in a patient with chronic infection of an endovascular prosthesis with Coxiella burnetii.