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Benjamin J Briggs1, Didier Raoult, Ziyad M Hijazi
1From 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.
Abstract:
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.
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