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Infections > Bacterial Infections and Mycoses > Bacterial Infections > Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections > Q Fever

Preferred term

Q Fever  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Coxiella burnetii Fever
  • Coxiella burnetii Fevers
  • Fever, Coxiella burnetii
  • Fever, Query
  • Fevers, Coxiella burnetii
  • Fevers, Query
  • Query Fever
  • Query Fevers

Scope note

  • An acute infectious disease caused by COXIELLA BURNETII. It is characterized by a sudden onset of FEVER; HEADACHE; malaise; and weakness. In humans, it is commonly contracted by inhalation of infected dusts derived from infected domestic animals (ANIMALS, DOMESTIC).

In other languages

  • Q-kuume

    Finnish

  • coxiellosis
  • Febris Q
  • infektion orsakad av Coxiella burnetii -ricketsia
  • nine mile -feber
  • nine mile -kuume
  • Q-feber
  • Q-feber

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011778

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