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Q fever |
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| Alternative Names: |
| Query fever |
| Symptoms: |
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Acute Q fever:
Chronic Q fever: prolonged fever, night sweats, chills, fatigue, shortness of breath. |
| Signs and tests: |
| The diagnosis of Q fever should be suspected in individuals with appropriate exposure histories who develop flu-like symptoms, pneumonia, hepatitis, or endocarditis. The mainstay for diagnosis of Q fever is a blood antibody test (serology) -- as it is very difficult to grow the causative bacteria in culture. |
Temperature measurement |
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