A rare case of Prosthetic Joint Infection associated with Coxiella burnetii

A rare case of Prosthetic Joint Infection associated with Coxiella burnetii

We report here the case of a Prosthetic Joint Infection (PJI) associated with Coxiella burnetii in a 62-year-old man with a revised total hip arthroplasty. The diagnosis was performed first by 16S rDNA sequencing on hip fluid aspirate, and confirmed by specific qPCR. Q fever has been reported in few...

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Main Authors: Rachel Chenouard, Emmanuel Hoppé, Carole Lemarié, Abdelhafid Talha, Florian Ducellier, François Ferchaud, Marie Kempf, Sophie Edouard, Pierre Abgueguen, Valérie Rabier, Hélène Pailhoriès
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-10-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971219303133

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