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n. An infectious disease, resembling influenza, caused by the bacterium (taxlink Coxiella burnetii species noshow=1)
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Q 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 is 9–40 days. Humans are vulnerable to Q Fever, and infection can result from even a few organisms. The bacterium is an obligate intracellular pathogenic parasite.
Usage examples of "q fever".
They began calling all the hospitals and emergency clinics in Chinatown in Manhattan and the one in Flushing, Queens, to see if any female Chinese patients had been admitted with Q fever and a badly broken, infected arm.
It was generally thought that Gus's work on Lassa and Q fever put him in the running for a Nobel Prize.