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Volume 3, Issue 3 (Suppl)
J Kidney, an open access journal
ISSN:2472-1220
Kidney & Nephrology 2017
August 28-30, 2017
August 28-30, 2017 Philadelphia, USA
15
th
Annual Congress on
Kidney: Nephrology & Therapeutics
Q fever and renal disease
Ana Raquel Fernandes
Centro Hospitalar de Setúbal, Portugal
C
oxiella burnetii (C. burnetii)
causes a zoonotic disease – Q fever. This bacterium is highly resistant to harsh environmental
conditions and causes an uncharacteristic clinical syndrome. Q fever may be acute or chronic and renal manifestations of
the disease are more common in the chronic forms. There is a few reports of acute kidney injury due to C. Burnetti and most of
them were reported in chronic forms of the disease. We are going through renal manifestations of the disease and we are going
to review a case of acute Q fever manifested by recurrent fever and acute kidney injury with nephrotic syndrome.
Biography
Ana Raquel Fernandes has completed her Master’s from Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. She is a 5th year Resident in
Nephrology, at Centro Hospitalar de Setúbal. She has published five papers in reputed journals and is a Reviewer at International Journal of STD & AIDS.
anar.fernandes@sapo.ptAna Raquel Fernandes, J Kidney 2017, 3:3 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2472-1220-C1-002