title: Prolonged Q fever associated with inappropriate secretion of anti-diuretic hormone.
abstract: A man with acute Q fever developed hyponatraemia associated with inappropriate secretion of anti-diuretic hormone. The pyrexial illness lasted for 9 weeks and failed to respond to tetracycline, erythromycin and intravenous lincomycin. Subsequently seroconversion indicated chronic Q fever.
mesh_terms: D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D007177:Inappropriate ADH Syndrome / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011778:Q Fever / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging