Q FEVER


Meaning of Q FEVER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Etymology: q uery

Date: 1937

: a disease that is characterized by high fever, chills, muscular pains, headache, and sometimes pneumonia, that is caused by a rickettsia ( Coxiella burnetii ) of which domestic animals serve as reservoirs, and that is transmitted to humans especially by inhalation of infective airborne bacteria (as in contaminated dust)

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