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Q fever
Sign in to saveAlso known as Infection due to Coxiella burnetii (disorder), Infection due to Coxiella burnetii
disease caused by infection with Coxiella burnetii
Key facts
- Other names
- Query fever, coxiellosis
- Specialty
- Infectious diseases
- Types
- acute, chronic
- Risk factors
- Contact with livestock
- Differential diagnosis
- pneumonia , influenza , brucellosis , leptospirosis , meningitis , viral hepatitis , dengue fever , malaria , other rickettsial infections
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
6,842 papers- [Q fever].Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) · 2015
- Q fever endocarditis.Infectious disorders drug targets · 2010
- Q fever.Infectious disease clinics of North America · 2008
- Q fever.Clinical microbiology reviews · 1993
- The Discovery of Q Fever and Its Cause.The American journal of the medical sciences · 2019
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Q fever.jpg
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- medical examination
- complete blood count
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C34970
- Commons category
- Q fever
- health specialty
- infectious diseases
- has cause
- Coxiella burnetii
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:11100
- disease transmission process
- airborne transmission
- minimal incubation period in humans
- 3
- maximal incubation period in humans
- 32
- symptoms and signs
- bradycardia
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- hydroxychloroquine
- ICD-9-CM
- 083.0
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Q fever or query fever is a disease caused by infection with Coxiella burnetii, a bacterium that affects humans and other animals. This organism is uncommon, but may be found in cattle, sheep, goats, and other domestic mammals, including cats and dogs. The infection results from inhalation of a spore-like small-cell variant, and from contact with the milk, urine, feces, vaginal mucus, or semen of infected animals. Rarely, the disease is tick-borne. The incubation period can range from 9 to 40 days. Humans are vulnerable to Q fever, and infection can result from even a few organisms. The bacterium is an obligate intracellular pathogenic parasite.
Signs and symptoms
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q fever” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.