Psoas abscess: An unusual manifestation of Q fever

Guillaume Breton; Yasmina Yahiaoui; Lionel Deforges; Agnès Lebrun; Marc Michel; Bertrand Godeau

doi:10.1016/j.ejim.2006.07.018

Psoas abscess: An unusual manifestation of Q fever

Eur J Intern Med. 2007 Jan;18(1):66-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2006.07.018.

Authors

Guillaume Breton¹, Yasmina Yahiaoui, Lionel Deforges, Agnès Lebrun, Marc Michel, Bertrand Godeau

Affiliation

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Pitié-Salpétrière, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, France.

PMID: 17223046
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2006.07.018

Abstract

Q fever may lead to serious complications in chronically infected patients. We report two cases of psoas abscess due to Coxiella burnetii associated with lumbar osteomyelitis secondary to an aortic aneurysmal infection. Diagnosis was based on serology, and PCR detected C. burnetii DNA in an abscess sample.