Briggs Benjamin J, Raoult Didier, Hijazi Ziyad M, Edouard Sophie, Angelakis Emmanouil, Logan Latania K
From the *Department of Pediatrics, Rush University Medical Center, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois; †Unité des Rickettsies, Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE) CNRS-IRD-INSERM UMR 7278, Faculté de Médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France; ‡Rush Center for Congenital and Structural Heart Disease, Rush University Medical Center, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois; §Department of Pediatrics, Sidra Medical and Research Center, Doha, Qatar; and ¶Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Rush University Medical Center, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois.
Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2016 Feb;35(2):213-4. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000000970.
Coxiella burnetii endocarditis is a rare diagnosis in children. We present a case of Q fever endocarditis due to a new genotype, MST 54, and review recent literature on Q fever infections in children. Practitioners should consider Q fever in culture-negative endocarditis, particularly in children with congenital heart disease and history of travel or residence in endemic regions.
伯纳特柯克斯体心内膜炎在儿童中是一种罕见的诊断。我们报告一例由新基因型MST 54引起的Q热心内膜炎病例,并回顾近期关于儿童Q热感染的文献。从业者在诊断培养阴性的心内膜炎时应考虑Q热,尤其是对于患有先天性心脏病且有在流行地区旅行或居住史的儿童。