Coxiella burnetii vascular graft infection

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...

Chronic Q Fever in Alberta: A Case of Coxiella burnetii Mycotic Aneurysm and Concomitant Vertebral Osteomyelitis

Chronic Q fever is a potentially life-threatening infection from the intracellular, Gram-negative Coxiella burnetii. It presents most commonly as endocarditis or vascular infection in people with underlying cardiac or vascular disease. We discuss a case of a 67-year-old male with Coxiella burnetii vascular infection of a perirenal abdominal aortic graft. The patient had a history of an abdomina...

Coxiella burnetii vascular graft infection: Case report

Long term vascular complications of Coxiella burnetii infection in Switzerland: cohort study.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the range of long term vascular manifestations of Coxiella burnetii infection. DESIGN Cohort study in Switzerland of people affected in 1983 by the largest reported outbreak of Q fever and who were followed up 12 years later. Follow up information about possible vascular disease and endocarditis was obtained through a mailed questionnaire and death certificates. SETTIN...

Case report: Coxiella burnetii vascular infection and lymphoma in the Netherlands

OBJECTIVES AND DESIGN Non-Hodgkin lymphoma has been linked to infection with Coxiella burnetii, potentially through overproduction of IL-10 during infection with C. burnetii. MATERIALS AND METHODS Description of a case report. RESULTS We describe a patient with retroperitoneal non-Hodgkin lymphoma and vascular infection with C. burnetii. Immunofluorescence staining and fluorescence in situ ...