Willey R F, Matthews M B, Peutherer J F, Marmion B P
Lancet. 1979 Aug 11;2(8137):270-2. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(79)90289-7.
Evidence of chronic Coxiella burneti infection of the heart, a disease previously considered peculiar to patients with valvular heart-disease, was found in a patient during routine serological tests before resection of a ventricular aneurysm and also by isolation of the rickettsia from the resected tissue. The patient had no symptoms or signs of Q-fever endocarditis and none of the laboratory evidence usually associated with it.
在一名患者进行室壁瘤切除术前的常规血清学检测中，发现了心脏慢性伯氏考克斯体感染的证据，这种疾病以前被认为是心脏瓣膜病患者所特有的，同时在切除的组织中分离出了立克次体。该患者没有Q热心内膜炎的症状或体征，也没有通常与之相关的实验室证据。
