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- Title
Q fever in military and paramilitary personnel in conflict zones: case report and review.
- Authors
White, B; Brooks, T; Seaton, R A
- Abstract
We present the case of a 44-year-old civilian security officer medically evacuated from Iraq with acalculous cholecystitis and Guillain-Barré syndrome and subsequently found to have acute Q fever. The presenting features of Q fever in military and related personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan are reviewed and the use of PCR in early diagnosis of Q fever is discussed. The atypical presentation in this case encourages clinicians to have a low threshold for considering Q fever as part of the differential diagnosis in soldiers and related personnel returning from these areas of high endemicity.
- Publication
Travel medicine and infectious disease, 2013, Vol 11, Issue 2, p134
- ISSN
1873-0442
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.tmaid.2012.11.001