Abstract

MEZA-CARDONA, JUAN CARLOS  and  ROSSO-SUAREZ, FERNANDO. Coxiella burnetii pneumonia: Case report and literature review. CES Med. [online]. 2012, vol.26, n.2, pp.201-207. ISSN 0120-8705.

ABSTRACT We report the case of a female patient of 56 years, previously asymptomatic, who begins rapidly progressive clinical symptoms of myalgia, arthralgia, rash and high fever unquantified, associated later with dyspnea, cough and abdominal pain, so it is sent to a hospital of high complexity of Cali (Colombia). Because the patient with pneumonia diagnostic impression of influenza AH1N1 on-infected, did not improve with antibiotic and antiviral treatment proposed was suspected the possibility of atypical pneumonia germs or concomitant connective tissue disease, so further clinical studies were requested. We detected titers of IgM antibodies by indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) for Coxiella burnetii thus antibiotic treatment was changed to levofloxacin and doxycycline, to which the patient responded optimally and could eventually be released

Keywords : Q fever; Coxiella burnetii; Atypical pneumonia; Colombia.

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