ALLMedicine™ Q Fever Center

Feb 19th, 2021 - Q fever can present as a fever of unknown aetiology and can be challenging to diagnose because of the rare incidence. It can present as an acute illness with manifestations, including influenza-like symptoms, hepatitis, pneumonia or chronic diseas...

Feb 9th, 2021 - Qfever is a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii; Coxiella-infected ruminants are the main reservoir shedding the pathogen during abortion or parturition through birth products. Germany has a long history of small-scale Q fev...

Feb 5th, 2021 - We report a case of chronic Q fever presenting with catastrophic bleeding from an infected abdominal aortic aneurysm causing a primary aortoduodenal fistula in an 80-year-old retired farmer. This presentation is rarely reported in literature and o...

Jan 21st, 2021 - Q fever osteoarticular infections are a rare complication of the chronic form of Q fever. We aimed to characterize chronic Q fever vertebral osteomyelitis through our experience and a review of the literature. Four adult patients with Q fever vert...

Jan 21st, 2021 - Chronic Q fever vertebral osteomyelitis, an underrecognized clinical entity.|2021|Buijs SB,Weehuizen JM,Oosterheert JJ,van Roeden SE,|

Mar 28th, 2013 - Q fever, a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii, can cause acute or chronic illness in humans. Transmission occurs primarily through inhalation of aerosols from contaminated soil or animal waste. No licensed vaccine is availa...

Feb 19th, 2021 - Q fever can present as a fever of unknown aetiology and can be challenging to diagnose because of the rare incidence. It can present as an acute illness with manifestations, including influenza-like symptoms, hepatitis, pneumonia or chronic diseas...

Feb 15th, 2021 - Minocycline hydrochloride capsules are indicated in the treatment of the following infections due to susceptible strains of the designated microorganisms: Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typhus fever and the typhus group, Q fever, rickettsialpox and...

Feb 14th, 2021 - Minocycline hydrochloride capsules are indicated in the treatment of the following infections due to susceptible strains of the designated microorganisms: Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typhus fever and the typhus group, Q fever, rickettsialpox and...

Feb 14th, 2021 - Minocycline hydrochloride capsules are indicated in the treatment of the following infections due to susceptible strains of the designated microorganisms: Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typhus fever and the typhus group, Q fever, rickettsialpox and...

Feb 9th, 2021 - Qfever is a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii; Coxiella-infected ruminants are the main reservoir shedding the pathogen during abortion or parturition through birth products. Germany has a long history of small-scale Q fev...

May 15th, 2018 - There appears to be no causal link between acute Q fever and the development of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to findings from a retrospective analysis of 12 years of Dutch data. Sonja E.

Oct 14th, 2015 - A vacuole containing Coxiella burnetii Image courtesy of NIAID The bacterium that causes Q fever may confer an increased risk of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and follicular lymphoma (FL), according to a study published in Blood. Q fever i.

Oct 1st, 2015 - Five Americans developed Q fever -- a disease of cattle, sheep and goats that's an occupational hazard for farmers -- after traveling to Germany for injections of sheep cells in what is described as "live cell therapy." Discredited stem cell resea...

Jul 17th, 2014 - How do you bring up bad body odor with coworkers? It's not easy, says NPR. (Of course, Dear Abby had this covered long ago.) There's no good news for niacin. The HPS2-THRIVE trial, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that the co...

May 8th, 2014 - Action Points Treatment goals are attained more quickly and maintained with fewer treatment intensifications with initial triple disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug therapy with initial methotrexate monotherapy, a study found. Another study has ...