1. An Unusual Manifestation of Q Fever: Peritonitis
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Gülden Yılmaz, Bengi Öztürk, Osman Memikoğlu, Belgin Coşkun, Aysun Yalçı, Özge Metin, Hatice Ünal, and Halil Kurt
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Infectious and parasitic diseases ,RC109-216 ,Public aspects of medicine ,RA1-1270 - Abstract
Summary: Q fever has rarely been reported and can be difficult to diagnose, especially in immunocompromised patients. In the present report, we describe an unusual case of Q fever that presented as peritonitis and was treated with long-term combination therapy with doxycycline, ciprofloxacin and rifampicin for five weeks in a patient who had been on peritoneal dialysis for six years due to hypertensive nephropathy. Keywords: Q fever, Coxiella burnetii, Peritonitis
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- 2015
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