Q fever in an American tourist returned from Australia

Nicole J. Cohen; Morris Papernik; Joseph Singleton; John Segreti; Marina E. Eremeeva

doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2006.09.002

Q fever in an American tourist returned from Australia

Nicole J. Cohen, Morris Papernik, Joseph Singleton, John Segreti, Marina E. Eremeeva

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Abstract

Q fever was diagnosed in a previously healthy man who had recently traveled to the East Coast of Australia. The patient experienced fever and headache accompanied by lymphopenia and elevated liver enzymes but not pneumonia. He had no known direct exposures to animals, exhibited IgM and IgG seroconversion to phase II antigen of Coxiella burnetii and IgM only to phase I antigen, and responded to doxycycline treatment. This case serves as a reminder to clinicians to consider Q fever in the differential diagnosis of acute febrile illness in travelers returning from endemic areas.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	194-195
Number of pages	2
Journal	Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Volume	5
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2006.09.002
State	Published - May 2007

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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Infectious Diseases

Keywords

Australia
Coxiella burnetii
Q fever
Travel

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