[Q fever: epidemic outbreak of the pure febrile form].

Autor:	Martínez Eizaguirre JM; Centro de Salud de Billabona, Guipúzcoa., Pérez Rizo M, Olivella Pedregal A, García Ventura S, Cancio Fanlo M, Basabe Zapirain M
Jazyk:	Spanish; Castilian
Zdroj:	Atencion primaria [Aten Primaria] 1992 May 15; Vol. 9 (8), pp. 425-8.
Abstrakt:	Objective: To describe an epidemic of 30 cases of Q fever, none of which had respiratory manifestations. Design: Descriptive study. SITE. General medicine practices in the Billabona Health Centre, which covers the populations of Billabona and Zizurkil. Patients and Other Participants: Thirty patients, 27 men and 3 women, were diagnosed by serology as having Q fever, during and epidemic of a type of fever in Spring 1990. Interventions: They were treated with Doxiciclin, taken orally. Main Measurements and Results: A general analysis and thoracic x-ray were carried out. The respiratory mechanism was not affected in any case. Transaminases were extremely high in 86% of cases. Other findings were: fever 100%, shivering 83.3%, sweating 96.6%, severe headache 86.7% and myalgia 73.4%. Conclusions: Faced with pseudoinfluenza symptoms, and in areas with high occurrence of Q fever, we should consider that we could be dealing with cases of Q fever, even when there are no respiratory manifestations.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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