Chronic Q fever in the Netherlands 5 years after the start of the Q fever epidemic: results from the Dutch chronic Q fever database.
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Coxiella burnetii causes Q fever, a zoonosis, which has acute and chronic manifestations. From 2007 to 2010, the Netherlands experienced a large Q fever outbreak, which has offered a unique opportunity to analyze chronic Q fever cases. In an observational cohort study, baseline characteristics and clinical characteristics, as well as mortality, of patients with proven, probable, or possible chronic Q fever in the Netherlands, were analyzed. In total, 284 chronic Q fever patients were identified, of which 151 (53.7%) had proven, 64 (22.5%) probable, and 69 (24.3%) possible chronic Q fever. Among proven and probable chronic Q fever patients, vascular infection focus (56.7%) was more prevalent than endocarditis (34.9%). An acute Q fever episode was recalled by 27.0% of the patients. The all-cause mortality rate was 19.1%, while the chronic Q fever-related mortality rate was 13.0%, with mortality rates of 9.3% among endocarditis patients and 18% among patients with a vascular focus of infection. Increasing age (P=0.004 and 0.010), proven chronic Q fever (P=0.020 and 0.002), vascular chronic Q fever (P=0.024 and 0.005), acute presentation with chronic Q fever (P=0.002 and P<0.001), and surgical treatment of chronic Q fever (P=0.025 and P<0.001) were significantly associated with all-cause mortality and chronic Q fever-related mortality, respectively.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of clinical microbiology
دوره 52 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014