Email this article A CASE OF Q FEVER IN NON-ENDEMIC AREAS
- Authors: Nafeev A.A.1,2, Bezik V.V.3
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Affiliations:
- 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
- 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.
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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. Goryachev42, Ul. Radishcheva, Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation, 432063
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