“…We searched for articles about C. burnetii -related joint infections in English using PubMed and Google Scholar with the terms “ Coxiella burnetii, ” “Q fever,” “chronic infection,” “persistent infection,” “prosthetic joint infection,” and “osteoarticular infection.” We excluded diskitis or spinal infection due to Q fever. This revealed 22 cases, including 7 pediatric cases reported in a case series [8] , [9] , [12] , [7] , [10] , [14] , [11] , [15] , [13] , [18] , [19] , [20] . Among them, detailed information was available for 16 cases (summarized in Table 1 ).…”