Isolation of Coxiella burnetii from an acromioclavicular infection with low serological titres

Cléa Melenotte; Géraldine Bart; Francoise Kraeber-Bodere; Serge Cammilleri; Benoit Le Goff; Didier Raoult

doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2018.05.018

Isolation of Coxiella burnetii from an acromioclavicular infection with low serological titres

Int J Infect Dis. 2018 Aug:73:27-29. doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2018.05.018. Epub 2018 Jun 4.

Authors

Cléa Melenotte¹, Géraldine Bart², Francoise Kraeber-Bodere³, Serge Cammilleri³, Benoit Le Goff⁴, Didier Raoult⁵

Affiliations

¹ Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France.
² Service de Rhumatologie, Hotel-Dieu, CHU Nantes, Nantes, France.
³ Service de Médecine Nucléaire, Hotel-Dieu, CHU Nantes, Nantes, France.
⁴ Centre de Medicine Nucléaire, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille, Marseille, France.
⁵ Aix-Marseille Université, IRD, APHM, MEPHI, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Marseille, France. Electronic address: didier.raoult@gmail.com.

PMID: 29879522
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2018.05.018

Abstract

Coxiella burnetii acromioclavicular infection is a new infectious focus, evidenced here for the first time using the gold standard, culture. Positron emission tomography had a crucial role in identifying the deep infectious focus, even when C. burnetii serological titres were low.

Keywords: Acromio-clavicular infection; Coxiella burnetii; Q fever; Q fever serology.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Acromioclavicular Joint / microbiology*
Antibodies, Bacterial / blood*
Coxiella burnetii / isolation & purification*
Female
Humans
Middle Aged
Positron-Emission Tomography
Q Fever / diagnosis*

Substances

Antibodies, Bacterial