Q fever
Farming, Q fever and public health: agricultural practices and beyond
... of Q fever human cases in the southern sheep grazing area ...a Q fever epidemic originating from neglected accumulation of sheep waste from a nearby abattoir ...ting Q fever to ...
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New Criteria for Immunofluorescence Assay for Q Fever Diagnosis in Japan
... for Q fever diagnosis, with the IFA test used to confirm negative results (3, ...acute Q fever (5), the result of this study showed a good correlation between IFA titers and ELISA index ...
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A Case of Pediatric Q Fever Osteomyelitis Managed Without Antibiotics
... to Q fever ...current Q fever PCR techniques are mainly restricted to tissue samples with high organism loads; sensitivity in other samples is ...acute Q fever in children under ...
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Chronic Q Fever with No Elevation of Inflammatory Markers: A Case Report
... diagnosis. The serologic evaluation was performed by Indi- rect Immunofluorescence Assay (IFA) using the commercial C. burnetii I+II IgG/A/M Immunofluorescence kit (Vircell Microbiologists, Granada, Spain). It revealed a ...
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Evaluation of a Diagnostic Algorithm for Acute Q Fever in an Outbreak Setting
... the Q fever explosion. In 2009, the JBH diagnosed more than 1,300 Q fever cases and over 18,000 requests for Q fever diagnostics were received, with a maximum of 182 requests on ...
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Q fever in pregnant goats: humoral and cellular immune responses
... C. burnetii is a Gram-negative, intracellular bacterium. As in other Gram-negative bacteria (e.g. Brucella spp. and Enterobacteriaceae spp.), two major phenotypes (phases) of C. burnetii are recognised. Phase 1 of C. ...
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Comparison of PCR and Serology Assays for Early Diagnosis of Acute Q Fever
... Q fever is a ubiquitous zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii, a short and pleomorphic, strictly intracellular bacillus ...acute Q fever cases are more frequently reported in spring and early ...
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Assessing the long term health impact of Q fever in the Netherlands: a prospective cohort study started in 2007 on the largest documented Q fever outbreak to date
... acute Q-fever patients during the last few years, the disease still requires ...all Q-fever infections are notified to the public health authorities ...for Q-fever with a ...
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High Coxiella burnetii DNA Load in Serum during Acute Q Fever Is Associated with Progression to a Serologic Profile Indicative of Chronic Q Fever
... acute Q fever, IFA results for one or more follow-up samples were ...for Q fever diagnos- tic tests (over 18,000 samples in 2009), IFA results sometimes were not titrated but were recorded ...
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Active surveillance of Q fever in human and animal population of Cyprus
... of Q fever in the entire island of Cyprus The population of Cyprus is approximately 700,000 and the island has five major public hospitals in the capital of Nicosia and the other major cities of the ...of ...
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Q Fever in Dogs: An Emerging Infectious Disease in Iran
... findings, Q fever should be considered as an emerging disease in dogs in Iran; so, zoonotic importance of this population must be ...in Q fever outbreak and to determine whether this organism ...
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DNA microarray-based detection of Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent of Q fever
... zoonosis Q fever, Coxiella burnetii is listed by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a Category B pathogen and potential bioterrorism agent ...with fever, severe ...
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A super spreading ewe infects hundreds with Q fever at a farmers' market in Germany
... with Q fever more frequently than private physicians because the proportion hospitalized among Q fever patients iden- tified through random telephone calls in the Soest popu- lation or those ...
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The health status of Q fever patients after long term follow up
... in Q-fever research. This makes comparison to other QoL-research in Q-fever diffi- ...of Q-fever patients with these two ...of Q-fever ...many Q-fever ...
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Pregnancy outcomes of Q fever: prospective follow up study on Reunion island
... each Q fever related APO were estimated using Poisson re- gression models for dichotomous outcomes with the robust variance option adjusted for hypertensive disorders, dia- betes (gestational or ...
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Modelling effectiveness of herd level vaccination against Q fever in dairy cattle
... Q fever is a worldwide zoonosis caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii. The control of this infection in cattle is crucial: infected ruminants can indeed encounter reproductive disorders and represent ...
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Unusual manifestations of acute Q fever: autoimmune hemolytic anemia and tubulointerstitial nephritis
... acute Q fever and there are two additional manifestations in our pa- tient: TIN with acute renal dysfunction and Coombs’ posi- tive ...of Q fever, is described less frequently in acute form ...
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Seroepidemiological study of Q fever in Lorestan province, western Iran, 2014
... Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 330 blood samples were collected from sheep, from each county in Lorestan province. The samples were tested by ELISA for the presence of immunoglobulin (IgG) against ...
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Review on Q fever in Small Ruminants and its Public Health Importance
... Q fever is a disease caused by coxiella burnetii which is ubiquitous intracellular bacterial pathogen, with acute and chronic clinical ...humans. Q fever is a worldwide zoonosis, which may ...
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Q fever endocarditis masquerading as Mixed cryoglobulinemia type II A case report and review of the literature
... of fever and a worsened holosystolic 4/ 6 murmur at the cardiac apex, which radiated to the ...the Q fever reagent of MRL (now Focus)] were positive phase I IgG: 1/64000, phase I IgM: ...
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