Q fever I. Clinical features and laboratory diagnosis

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Q fever, due to Rickettsia burneti. is wide spread, is disseminated by a number of ticks, and finds natural reservoirs in various mammals[long dash]both wild and domestic[long dash]and in birds. A virus type of pneumonia and severe frontal headaches frequently characterize the disease in man. The attacks respond readily to chloromycetin or to Aureomycin therapy and cure is rapid, although a few cases remain as low-grade chronic infections. Complement-fixation tests are quite specific in diagnosis, but control antigens should be available to rule out the occasional false positives obtained. The disease, at least in Europe and North America, is more common among men than among women.[long dash]A. C. Walton.

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