Q Fever: A troubling disease and a challenging diagnosis

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• Alternative Title:
  Clin Microbiol Newsl
• Personal Author:
  Miller, Halie K. ; Priestley, Rachael A. ; Kersh, Gilbert J.
• Description:
  Q fever is a disease caused by the bacterial pathogen |. This hardy organism can easily spread long distances in the wind, and only a few infectious aerosolized particles are necessary to cause serious illness. Presentations of Q fever disease can be wide-ranging, allowing it to masquerade as other illnesses and highlight the importance of laboratory testing for diagnosis and treatment. This review summarizes Q fever's epidemiology and clinical presentations and presents classical laboratory diagnostic assays and novel approaches to detecting this troubling disease.
• Subjects:
  Article
• Source:
  Clin Microbiol Newsl. 43(13):109-118
• Pubmed ID:
  37701818
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10493821
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  43
• Issue:
  13
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:386b1b3dde257fe94d967324164626d37f4a065b1bfc780e691e85ae8a6fe366
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/133027/cdc_133027_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 353.39 KB ]