DIFFICULTIES IN DIAGNOSING KU FEVER

Keywords: ku fever, Coxiellaburnetii, natural focal diseases, coxiellosis, zoonotic diseases
Abstarct: A clinical case of serologically confirmed diagnosis of ku fever, which is characterized by prolonged intoxication with signs of systemic inflammatory response syndrome, cytolysis of hepatocytes, transitory thrombocytopenia and moderate direct hyperbilirubiemia is described. This rather rare infection is a typical “masked disease”, imitating clinical picture of several number of infections. Polymorphism of clinical course of ku fever, variety of transmission paths, presence of its erased, atypical and chronic forms, and shortening of laboratory testing volumes for coxiellosis confirmation resulted in significant difficulties creation at the stage of early diagnostic search in this disease.

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