Coxiella burnetii Endocarditis and Meningitis, California, USA, 2017

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Allan-Blitz, Lao-Tzu ; Sakona, Ashyln ; Wallace, William D. ; Klausner, Jeffrey D.
• Description:
  The epidemiology of Coxiella burnetii infection in the United States is not well characterized. We report a case-patient with C. burnetii endocarditis and meningitis. Infection was diagnosed by detecting high serologic titers for C. burnetii and confirmed by sequencing of C. burnetii 16S rRNA isolated from resected valvular tissue and PCR of cerebrospinal fluid.
• Subjects:
  Adult Anti-Bacterial Agents Antibodies, Bacterial Dispatch Doxycycline Endocarditis, Bacterial Humans Hydroxychloroquine Immunoglobulin G Immunoglobulin M Male Meningitis, Bacterial Q Fever RNA, Bacterial RNA, Ribosomal, 16S

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 24(8):1555-1557
• Pubmed ID:
  30016252
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6056110
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  P30 AI028697/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States ; P30 MH058107/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
• Place as Subject:
  California
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  24
• Issue:
  8
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6696d5deb3c14e756d51c82c4a9fbfe272e519c190775baf80e34739728d40f2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/57973/cdc_57973_DS1.pdf
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