- PART 1 Introduction
- PART 2 Bacterial, chlamydial, and rickettsial zoonoses
- Chapter 6 Anthrax
- Chapter 7 Brucellosis
- Chapter 8 Verocytotoxin-producing <i>Escherichia coli</i> (VTEC) infections
- Chapter 9 Lyme borreliosis
- Chapter 10 Tick-borne rickettsial diseases
- Chapter 11 Flea-borne rickettsial diseases
- Chapter 12 Epidemic and murine typhus
- Chapter 13 Scrub typhus
- Chapter 14 Listeriosis
- Chapter 15 Mycobacterioses
- Chapter 16 Campylobacteriosis
- Chapter 17 Chlamydiosis
- Chapter 18 Q fever
- Chapter 19a Other bacterial diseasesDiseases caused by corynebacteria and related organisms
- Chapter 19b Other bacterial diseasesAnaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis and neorickettsiosis
- Chapter 19c Other bacterial diseasesPasteurellosis
- Chapter 19d Other bacterial diseasesRat-bite fevers
- Chapter 19e Other bacterial diseasesStreptococcosis
- Chapter 19f Other bacterial diseasesCat-scratch disease
- Chapter 19g Other bacterial diseasesErysipeloid
- Chapter 19h Other bacterial diseasesStaphylococcal zoonoses
- Chapter 20 Leptospirosis
- Chapter 21 Yersiniosis and plague
- Chapter 22 Glanders
- Chapter 23 Salmonellosis
- Chapter 24 Tularaemia
- PART 3 Viral zoonoses
- PART 4 Parasitic zoonoses
(p. 158) Q fever
- Chapter:
- (p. 158) Q fever
- Author(s):
Thomas J. Marrie
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780198570028.003.0018
Q fever is a wide spread illness affecting wild and domestic animals and man. The etiological agent Coxiella burnetii, has both a wild life and domestic animal cycle. In mammals, infection localizes to the endometrium and the mammary glands. The organism is reactivated during pregnancy reaching high concentrations in the placenta. At the time of parturition the organism is aerosolized. Inhalation of Coxiella burnetii by a susceptible animal results in Q fever. In man, Q fever may be acute (self limited febrile illness, pneumonia, hepatitis) or chronic (mostly endocarditis, but also osteomyelitis, endovascular infection, hepatitis [can be both acute and chronic] and Q fever in pregnancy). Abortion and stillbirth are manifestations of Q fever in domestic animals and in animal models of disease (such as a mouse model of Q fever in pregnancy ). A vaccine is available for abattoir workers, veterinarians and others at high risk for acquiring Q fever.
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- PART 1 Introduction
- PART 2 Bacterial, chlamydial, and rickettsial zoonoses
- Chapter 6 Anthrax
- Chapter 7 Brucellosis
- Chapter 8 Verocytotoxin-producing <i>Escherichia coli</i> (VTEC) infections
- Chapter 9 Lyme borreliosis
- Chapter 10 Tick-borne rickettsial diseases
- Chapter 11 Flea-borne rickettsial diseases
- Chapter 12 Epidemic and murine typhus
- Chapter 13 Scrub typhus
- Chapter 14 Listeriosis
- Chapter 15 Mycobacterioses
- Chapter 16 Campylobacteriosis
- Chapter 17 Chlamydiosis
- Chapter 18 Q fever
- Chapter 19a Other bacterial diseasesDiseases caused by corynebacteria and related organisms
- Chapter 19b Other bacterial diseasesAnaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis and neorickettsiosis
- Chapter 19c Other bacterial diseasesPasteurellosis
- Chapter 19d Other bacterial diseasesRat-bite fevers
- Chapter 19e Other bacterial diseasesStreptococcosis
- Chapter 19f Other bacterial diseasesCat-scratch disease
- Chapter 19g Other bacterial diseasesErysipeloid
- Chapter 19h Other bacterial diseasesStaphylococcal zoonoses
- Chapter 20 Leptospirosis
- Chapter 21 Yersiniosis and plague
- Chapter 22 Glanders
- Chapter 23 Salmonellosis
- Chapter 24 Tularaemia
- PART 3 Viral zoonoses
- PART 4 Parasitic zoonoses