Chronic cryptic Q-fever infection of the heart.
Evidence of chronic Coxiella burneti infection of the heart, a disease previously considered peculiar to patients with valvular heart-disease, was found in a patient during routine serological tests before resection of a ventricular aneurysm and also by isolation of the rickettsia from the resected tissue. The patient had no symptoms or signs of Q-fever endocarditis and none of the laboratory evidence usually associated with it.
D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000276:immunology; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003168:Complement Fixation Tests; D003381:Coxiella / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006322:Heart Aneurysm / Q000209:etiology; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011778:Q Fever
D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial