Polymicrobial Infections Among Patients with Vascular Q Fever, France, 2004–2020

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• vascular Q fever
• chronic Q fever
• Coxiella burnetii
• vascular graft and endograft infections
• aortitis
• aortoenteric fistula