作者: Rachel Chenouard , Emmanuel Hoppé , Carole Lemarié , Abdelhafid Talha , Florian Ducellier
DOI: 10.1016/J.IJID.2019.07.028
关键词: Medicine 、 Rare case 、 Prosthetic joint 、 Total hip arthroplasty 、 Q fever 、 Internal medicine 、 Coxiella burnetii 、 Prosthetic joint infection
摘要: Abstract We report here the case of a Prosthetic Joint Infection (PJI) associated with Coxiella burnetii in 62-year-old man revised total hip arthroplasty. The diagnosis was performed first by 16S rDNA sequencing on fluid aspirate, and confirmed specific qPCR. Q fever has been reported few cases Infections, often chronic evolution iterative surgeries. This alerts about such an unexpected patient no known risk factors.