Q fever

Q Fever
Q Fever is caused by a bacterium (Coxiella burnetii). Individuals who have frequent direct contact with animals, including veterinarians, meat workers, and sheep and dairy farmers, are at higher risk. Q fever is rarely fatal.

Q fever has flu-like symptoms
People with Q fever suffer fever, headaches, chills and muscle pains. The illness occasionally causes long term complications.
It is passed on to humans in different ways
Q fever is passed on to humans through: ...

Q Fever Causes, Symptoms and Treatment and Related Disorders
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What is Q fever?
Q fever is a rickettsial infection caused by Coxiella burnetii.

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Definition of medical terminology for Q Fevers.

Acute Q fever
Acute means short-term. Acute Q fever causes flu-like symptoms that last for a couple of weeks. Less commonly, acute Q fever can cause mild pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs), and mild hepatitis (inflammation of the liver).

What is Q Fever?
Q fever is a disease caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii which mainly afflicts sheep and cattle but can be transmitted to humans who come into contact with infected animals.

Q fever is diagnosed with a blood antibody test (serology).
Treatment:
The main treatment for Q fever is with antibiotics. For early-stage (acute) Q fever, doxycycline is the recommended antibiotic.

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Rickettsia - any of a group of very small microorganisms, many disease-causing, that live in vertebrates and are transmitted by bloodsucking parasitic arthropods such as fleas, lice and ticks. Rickettsias are na...

Q Fever
Q fever is caused by a specific type of bacteria carried by animals, most commonly sheep, goats and cattle. When you inhale barnyard dust particles contaminated by infected animals, you may become infected.

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Q fever and late Q fever
An infection of the lungs (pneumonia) and the liver (hepatitis)
Symptoms of Q Fever can appear suddenly (acute) or persist for many years (chronic) with cycles of remission (free of symptoms) and relapse (symptoms appear).

Q fever is a highly infectious condition with symptoms similar to those of influenza. The infection can be passed from infected animals to humans, but it cannot be passed from human to human.

Q Fever An acute disease resembling influenza. Q Fever is caused by the strictly intracellular, gram negative bacterium Coxiella burnetii which proceeds asymptomatic and self-limiting in 60% of the cases.

Q fever
kju fiv noun an infectious rickettsial disease of sheep and cows caused by Coxiella burnetti transmitted ...
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Q fever endocarditis
The most common clinical feature of chronic Q fever is inflammation of the heart's inner lining (endocarditis). Left untreated, endocarditis can result in damage to or destruction of the heart's valves.

Q fever is found worldwide and affects both wild and domestic animals. Tick-borne transmission to humans is rare. Fewer than 10 cases are reported each year in the United States.

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Q fever - early
Quad screen (Quadruple screen test)
Quadruple screen test
Quadruple screen
Quantitative immunoglobulins (Quantitative nephelometry)
Quantitative nephelometry
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Q fever (Coxiella burnetii)
Brucellosis (undulant fever)
Glanders (Burkholderia mallei)
Ricin toxin (from the castor bean Ricinus communis)
Epsilon toxin of Clostridium perfringens (the gas gangrene bacillus) ...

Q fever.
Contact with animals, their remains or their untreated products. For example, farm workers involved in the rearing of sheep, abattoir workers, veterinary surgeons.
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SYMPTOMS"Some of the symptoms are like those of typhus (which see), and some are like those of broncho-pneumonia (see Pneumonia, Bronchitis). There is a sudden onset of fever, headache, weakness, and a pneumonia-like infection.

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Definition Q fever is an illness caused by a type of bacteria, Coxiella burnetii, resulting in a fever and rash. Description C. burnetii lives in many different kinds of animals, including cattle, sheep, goats, ticks, cats, rabbits, birds, and dogs.

Q fever (early)
Q fever (late)
Renal cell carcinoma
Respiratory distress syndrome (infants)
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
Restrictive cardiomyopathy
Rheumatoid lung disease
Right-sided heart failure
Sarcoidosis
Senile cardiac amyloid ...

Tick-borne diseases include Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Q fever, tularemia, babesiosis, and Southern tick-associated rash illness.

Rickettsial diseases (rickettsioses) and related diseases (ehrlichiosis, Q fever) are caused by a group of gram-negative, obligately intracellular coccobacilli. Most have an arthropod vector.

Some parasitic forms affect humans and other mammals, causing damage by their feeding, and can even be vectors of diseases such as scrub typhus, rickettsialpox, Lyme disease, Q fever, Colorado tick fever, tularemia, tick-borne relapsing fever, ...

Rickettsia (an organism somewhere between a virus and bacteria) causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Q fever, typhus, and psittacosis, all diseases that may have mild or severe effects on the lungs.

Coxiella burnetii (Rickettsia burneti Derrick 1939) Philip 1948 (Q fever)
order: Pasteurellales
family: Pasteurellaceae ...

Legionella pneumophila/Legionella longbeachae (Legionellosis) Â- Coxiella burnetii (Q fever)
Thiotrichales
Francisella tularensis (Tularemia) ...

Workers exposed to cattle, pigs, sheep, and horses are at risk for pneumonia caused by anthrax, Brucella, and Coxiella burnetii, which causes Q fever/
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Have other conditions with similar symptoms, such as tuberculosis, infective endocarditis, brucellosis, lymphoma, Q fever, viral hepatitis, malaria, and amebiasis, been ruled out?
Is there evidence of systemic infection or organ system involvement?

A history of occupational exposure to animals may suggest unusual but potentially severe forms of pneumonia, such as hantavirus (rodent droppings), plague (rodents), tularemia (rabbits), Q fever, or psittacosis (pet birds).

and M. avium-intracellulare); fungi, including Histoplasma capsulatum, Coccidioides immitis, Blastomyces dermatitidis, Cryptococcus neoformans, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Pneumocystis carinii; and rickettsiae, primarily Coxiella burnetii (Q fever).

See also: Fever, Symptom, Bacterial, Rash, Antibiotic