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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
* Described in 1937: occupational disease of abattoir workers (manage animals before and after slaughtering process) and dairy farmers | |||
* Caused by Coxiella burnetii | |||
* Obligate intracellular bacteria morphologically similar to Rickettsia | |||
* Reservoirs include cattle, goat, sheep, and ticks (Dermacentor andersoni) | |||
* CDC: category B biologic warfare agent due to its inhaled infectivity | |||
* Worldwide disease | |||
==Clinical Features== | ==Clinical Features== | ||
Revision as of 18:07, 17 October 2014
Background
- Described in 1937: occupational disease of abattoir workers (manage animals before and after slaughtering process) and dairy farmers
- Caused by Coxiella burnetii
- Obligate intracellular bacteria morphologically similar to Rickettsia
- Reservoirs include cattle, goat, sheep, and ticks (Dermacentor andersoni)
- CDC: category B biologic warfare agent due to its inhaled infectivity
- Worldwide disease
Clinical Features
Differential Diagnosis
Fever in traveler
- Normal causes of acute fever!
- Malaria
- Dengue
- Leptospirosis
- Typhoid fever
- Typhus
- Viral hemorrhagic fevers
- Chikungunya
- Yellow fever
- Rift valley fever
- Q fever
- Amebiasis
- Zika virus