Biography
Biography: Ana Raquel Fernandes
Abstract
Coxiella 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.