A CASE OF Q FEVER IN NON-ENDEMIC AREAS

  • Authors: Nafeev A.A.1,2, Bezik V.V.3
  • Affiliations:
    1. Federal Budgetary Institution of Health care Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Ulyanovsk Region of the Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare
    2. Federal State budgetary Educational Institution of Higher professional education Ulyanovsk State University
    3. State Institution of Health care Ulyanovsk Regional Children's Clinical Hospital named after a political and public figure Yu.F. Goryachev
  • Issue: Vol 17, No 6 (2012)
  • Pages: 38-40
  • Section: Articles
  • URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1560-9529/article/view/40728
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/EID40728
  • ID: 40728

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Abstract

Coxiellosis (Q-fever) is a systemic natural focal zooanthroponosis disease, which has a very wide geographical area. A variety of clinical manifestations and the absence of pathognomonic signs of illness forces to use for making a definite diagnosis complex of techniques including epizootological, epidemiological data, clinical manifestations, and certainly the results of several serological tests designed to detect antibodies to Coxiella burnetii. There is presented a description of an acute case of Q - fever in a child in the subject, characterized as trouble-free of Coxiellosis from 70-ies of the last century.

About the authors

A. A. Nafeev

Federal Budgetary Institution of Health care Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Ulyanovsk Region of the Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare; Federal State budgetary Educational Institution of Higher professional education Ulyanovsk State University

Email: nafeev@mail.ru
зав. отд-нием особо опасных инфекций; доктор мед. наук, доц., медицинского фак., каф. инфекционных и кожно-венерических болезней 5, Ul. Pushkareva, Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation, 432005

V. V. Bezik

State Institution of Health care Ulyanovsk Regional Children's Clinical Hospital named after a political and public figure Yu.F. Goryachev

42, Ul. Radishcheva, Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation, 432063

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