Q-fever

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• Causes

  • Tic bite

• Effects

  • Culture-negative endocarditis
  • Acute headache
  • Photophobia
  • Atypical pneumonia

• Parents

  • Tic-borne bacterial disease

• Treatments

  • Doxycycline

• Description

  • "infection with Coxiella burnetii. obligate intracellular pathogen. incubation period 10�40 days. Q stands for �query� due to the unknown etiology of the mystery disease when it was first recognized. "