Unusual Aspects of Acute Q Fever-Associated Hepatitis

STEVEN H. YALE; PIET C. DE GROEN; JULIUS D. TOOSON; PAUL J. KURTIN

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Unusual Aspects of Acute Q Fever-Associated Hepatitis

STEVEN H. YALE, PIET C. DE GROEN, JULIUS D. TOOSON, PAUL J. KURTIN

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We describe a 37-year-old farmer with a 3-week history of fevers and hepatitis, in whom Q fever was diagnosed. The diagnosis was based on the findings of characteristic “ring” granulomas on a bone marrow biopsy specimen and confirmed by complement-fixation antibody tests to Coxiella burnetii. Unusual aspects of this case included (1) relatively low complement-fixation antibody titers, (2) prolonged prothrombin time, (3) false-positive results of a serologic test for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and (4) ring granulomas that progressed to atypical granulomas in biopsy specimens.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	769-773
Number of pages	5
Journal	Mayo Clinic proceedings
Volume	69
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0025-6196(12)61097-0
State	Published - 1994

Keywords

AIDS
ELISA
HIV
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
human immunodeficiency virus

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