TY - JOUR AU - Puges, Mathilde AU - Bérard, Xavier AU - Caradu, Caroline AU - Ducours, Maïlys AU - Eldin, Carole AU - Carrer, Mathilde AU - Sauvage, Noémie AU - Vareil, Marc-Olivier AU - Alleman, Laure AU - M’Zali, Fatima AU - Pereyre, Sabine AU - Cazanave, Charles T1 - Polymicrobial Infections Among Patients with Vascular Q Fever, France, 2004–2020 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2021 VL - 27 IS - 7 SP - 1961 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We report 5 cases of vascular Q fever complicated by polymicrobial superinfection in patients who had no risk factors for acute Q fever. Q fever was diagnosed by serologic and molecular assays for Coxiella burnetii. We confirmed additional infections using conventional graft cultures. KW - vascular Q fever KW - chronic Q fever KW - Coxiella burnetii KW - vascular graft and endograft infections KW - aortitis KW - aortoenteric fistula KW - Q fever KW - bacteria KW - zoonoses KW - bacterial zoonoses KW - vector-borne infections KW - polymicrobial infections KW - France DO - 10.3201/eid2707.210282 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/7/21-0282_article ER - End of Reference