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[Q fever in Guinea-Bissau. 1 case]
M Lyagoubi1, D Fassin, O Rogeaux
1Département de Médecine Tropicale et Santé Publique, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris.
Bulletin De La Societe De Pathologie Exotique Et De Ses Filiales
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Q fever is seldom reported in West Africa. The case of a man returning from Guinea Bissau who presented an acute lobar pneumonia with fever, headache, hematuria and hepatitis was confirmed by high titers of antibody in Phase II indirect immuno-fluorescence which appeared on the twelfth day of fever. Treatment with erythromycin was continued by doxycyclin, and complete resolution of all signs was promptly obtained. Coxiella Burnetii might thus be responsible of cases of unexplained fever with respiratory or hepatic manifestations in West Africa.