Q fever

Q fever

What is Q fever?

Q fever. – Acute rickettsial disease characterized by general toxic phenomena, often with fever and atypical pneumonia. Pathogen – a small organism. Very resistant to drying, heat, ultraviolet irradiation. Reservoir and source of infection are various wild and domestic animals, and ticks. Infection of people are in contact with them, consumption of dairy products and airborne dust by. The disease is detected during the whole year, but more often in spring and summer. KU-fever is widespread across the globe, natural foci are found in 5 continents.

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