Q fever encephalitis with cytokine profiles in serum and cerebrospinal fluid.
A 7-year-old boy with acute encephalitis was proved to have Coxiella burnetii infection. Cerebrospinal fluid but not serum had elevated values of interleukins 1-beta and 6, but not of tumor necrosis factor.
Kubota
H
H
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan. h-kubota@ta2.so-net.ne.jp
Tanabe
Y
Y
Komiya
T
T
Hirai
K
K
Takanashi
J
J
Kohno
Y
Y
D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000097:blood; D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000473:pathology; D002555:Cerebrospinal Fluid / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology / Q000382:microbiology; D002648:Child; D016997:Coxiella burnetii / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D016207:Cytokines / Q000097:blood / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid*; D004660:Encephalitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology; D019084:Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011778:Q Fever / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000276:immunology; D013687:Telencephalon / Q000473:pathology
D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D016207:Cytokines