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A possible role for mitochondrial-derived peptides humanin and MOTS-c in patients with Q fever fatigue syndrome and chronic fatigue syndrome

Journal of Translational Medicine, 2019
Background Q fever fatigue syndrome (QFS) is a well-documented state of prolonged fatigue following around 20% of acute Q fever infections. It has been hypothesized that low grade inflammation plays a role in its aetiology.
Ruud P. H. Raijmakers, Anne F. M. Jansen, Stephan P. Keijmel, Rob ter Horst, Megan E. Roerink, Boris Novakovic, Leo A. B. Joosten, Jos W. M. van der Meer, Mihai G. Netea, Chantal P. Bleeker-Rovers   +9 more
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Pediatric Q Fever

Current Infectious Disease Reports, 2020
The non-specific presentation of acute Q fever makes it difficult to diagnose in children, but untreated Q fever can result in chronic infections that have severe complications.Pediatric Q fever cases continue to be infrequently reported in the literature, and primarily document cases of persistent infections with Coxiella burnetii.
Cara C, Cherry, Gilbert J, Kersh
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Q Fever Vaccine Development: Current Strategies and Future Considerations

Pathogens, 2021
Q fever is a zoonotic disease caused by the intracellular pathogen Coxiella burnetii. This disease typically manifests as a self-limiting, febrile illness known as acute Q fever.
Carrie Mae Long
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Q Fever Endocarditis in Iran

Scientific Reports, 2019
Patients with the underlying valvular heart disease are at the high risk of developing sub-acute or chronic endocarditis secondary to Coxiella burnetii. Q fever endocarditis is the most common manifestation along with persistent the infection.
Pardis Moradnejad, Saber Esmaeili, Majid Maleki, Anita Sadeghpour, Monireh Kamali, Mahdi Rohani, Ahmad Ghasemi, Fahimeh Bagheri Amiri, Hamid Reza Pasha, Shabnam Boudagh, Hooman Bakhshandeh, Nasim Naderi, Behshid Ghadrdoost, Sara Lotfian, Seyed Ali Dehghan Manshadi, Ehsan Mostafavi   +15 more
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Q Fever: A Troubling Disease and a Challenging Diagnosis [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology Newsletter, 2021
Halie K. Miller, Rachael A. Priestley, Gilbert J. Kersh   +2 more
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A Narrative Review of Q Fever in Europe

Cureus, 2023
Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent of Q fever, causes abortions in animals. Its effects on humans and the management of Q fever in certain conditions like pregnancy are undetermined.
M. Christodoulou, F. Malli, K. Tsaras, C. Billinis, D. Papagiannis   +4 more
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Q fever immunology: the quest for a safe and effective vaccine

npj Vaccines, 2023
Q fever is an infectious zoonotic disease, caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Coxiella burnetii . Transmission occurs from livestock to humans through inhalation of a survival form of the bacterium, the Small Cell Variant, often via handling of animal
Gayathri Sam, J. Stenos, Stephen R. Graves, B. Rehm   +3 more
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The Prevalence of Coxiella burnetii in Hard Ticks in Europe and Their Role in Q Fever Transmission Revisited—A Systematic Review

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021
The zoonosis Q fever is caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii. Besides the main transmission route via inhalation of contaminated aerosols, ticks are discussed as vectors since the first isolation of the pathogen from a ...
S. Körner, G. R. Makert, S. Ulbert, M. Pfeffer, Katja Mertens-Scholz   +4 more
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Research Trends and Hotspots of Q Fever Research: A Bibliometric Analysis 1990-2019

BioMed Research International, 2022
Q fever is a worldwide distributed zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii, a Gram-negative bacterium. Despite existence of large amount of research data on the developments related to Q fever, no bibliometric analysis of this subject is available to our ...
Muhammad Farooq, A. U. Khan, H. El-Adawy, Katja Mertens-Scholz, I. Khan, H. Neubauer, Y. Ho   +6 more
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Diverse and atypical manifestations of Q fever in a metropolitan city hospital: Emerging role of next-generation sequencing for laboratory diagnosis of Coxiella burnetii

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
Although Q fever has been widely reported in the rural areas of China, there is a paucity of data on the epidemiology and clinical characteristics of this disease in large metropolitan cities.
F. Xing, Haiyan Ye, Chaowen Deng, Linlin Sun, Yanfei Yuan, Qianyun Lu, Jin Yang, S. Lo, Ruiping Zhang, J. H. Chen, J. Chan, S. Lau, P. Woo   +12 more
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