ALLMedicine™ Q Fever Center

May 7th, 2021 - Q fever, a zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii, has adverse effects on public health. Ticks are vectors of C. burnetii and they contribute to the transmission of the pathogen. A tool for rapid, sensitive, and accurate detection of C. burnetii fro...

Apr 24th, 2021 - There are few reports about Q fever in horse populations worldwide. This study aimed to detect the C. burnetii infection by serologic and molecular confirmation using commercial ELISA kit and real-time PCR in the East of Iran a region highly endem...

Apr 19th, 2021 - Current knowledge on Rickettsia felis infection in humans is based on sporadic case reports. Here we conducted a retrospective seroepidemiological survey of R. felis infection among febrile patients visiting a medical center in Taipei. A total of ...

Apr 14th, 2021 - Coxiella burnetii is the causative agent of Q fever which is a highly infectious zoonotic disease. C. burnetii has become one of the most important causes of abortion in livestock, which can lead to widespread abortions in these animals. There are...

Apr 4th, 2021 - We assessed the prognostic value of phase I IgG titres during treatment and follow-up of chronic Q fever. We performed a retrospective cohort study to analyse the course of phase I IgG titres in chronic Q fever. We used a multivariable time-varyin...

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...

May 9th, 2021 - Minocycline hydrochloride capsules, USP 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, rickettsialpo...

May 7th, 2021 - Q fever, a zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii, has adverse effects on public health. Ticks are vectors of C. burnetii and they contribute to the transmission of the pathogen. A tool for rapid, sensitive, and accurate detection of C. burnetii fro...

Apr 24th, 2021 - There are few reports about Q fever in horse populations worldwide. This study aimed to detect the C. burnetii infection by serologic and molecular confirmation using commercial ELISA kit and real-time PCR in the East of Iran a region highly endem...

Apr 19th, 2021 - Current knowledge on Rickettsia felis infection in humans is based on sporadic case reports. Here we conducted a retrospective seroepidemiological survey of R. felis infection among febrile patients visiting a medical center in Taipei. A total of ...

Apr 14th, 2021 - Coxiella burnetii is the causative agent of Q fever which is a highly infectious zoonotic disease. C. burnetii has become one of the most important causes of abortion in livestock, which can lead to widespread abortions in these animals. There are...

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 ...