All issues > Volume 38(6); 1995

Case Report

J Korean Pediatr Soc. 1995;38(6):848-852. Published online June 15, 1995.

A Case of Q Fever with Agranulocytosis

Seong Woo SW Choi¹, Ja Wook JW Koo¹, Heung Dong HD Kim¹, Churl Young CY Chung¹, Won Young WY Lee²

¹Department of Pediatrics, Sanggye Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
²Department of Microbiology, Yonse University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

A 9-year old boy suffered from fever 20 days. He lived in rural area near farms rearing cows, goats, sheep. He had fever for 20 days with mild respiratory symptom, hepatosplenomegaly and agranulocytosis. Coxiella burnetii infection was confirmed by the blood culture and demonstration of the specific antibodies in the indirect fluorescent antibody test. Four weeks later, agranulocytosis was improved by long-term teratment of tetracylin and chloramphenicol. We repotr a case of Q fever with agranulocytosis with a brief review of literatires.

Keywords :Q Fever, Agranulocytosis