KEGG DISEASE: Q fever

KEGG

DISEASE: Q fever

Entry

H00310                      Disease

Name

Q fever

Description

Q fever is a worldwide zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii, a gram-negative obligate intracellular bacterium. This infection has many different reservoirs that mainly consist of dairy cattle. Infection in humans is often asymptomatic, but may appear either in an acute form accompanied mainly by fever (self-limited flu-like disease, pneumonia, or hepatitis) or in a chronic form (mainly endocarditis).

Category

Bacterial infectious disease

Brite

Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
  Other bacterial diseases
   Rickettsioses
    1C33  Q fever
     H00310  Q fever
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Bacterial infections
  Infections caused by other gamma proteobacteria
   H00310  Q fever

Pathogen

Coxiella burnetii [GN:cbu cbs cbg cbc]

Drug

Tetracycline hydrochloride [DR:D02122]
Doxycycline [DR:D00307]
Doxycycline hyclate [DR:D02129]
Doxycycline calcium [DR:D03903]
Minocycline hydrochloride [DR:D00850]
Demeclocycline hydrochloride [DR:D00290]

Comment

Vector: Rhipicephalus sanguineus (brown dog tick)

Other DBs

ICD-11:

ICD-10:

MeSH:

MedlinePlus:

Reference

Authors

Delsing CE, Warris A, Bleeker-Rovers CP

Title

Q fever: still more queries than answers.

Journal

Adv Exp Med Biol 719:133-43 (2011)
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4614-0204-6_12

Reference

Authors

Kovacova E, Kazar J

Title

Q fever--still a query and underestimated infectious disease.

Journal

Acta Virol 46:193-210 (2002)

Reference

Authors

Kazar J

Title

Coxiella burnetii infection.

Journal

Ann N Y Acad Sci 1063:105-14 (2005)
DOI:10.1196/annals.1355.018

Reference

Authors

Woldehiwet Z

Title

Q fever (coxiellosis): epidemiology and pathogenesis.

Journal

Res Vet Sci 77:93-100 (2004)
DOI:10.1016/j.rvsc.2003.09.001

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