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Q fever

Index Q fever

Q fever or query fever is a disease caused by infection with Coxiella burnetii, a bacterium that affects humans and other animals. [1]

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  1. 119 relations: Abdomen, Acute respiratory distress syndrome, Alanine transaminase, Anorexia (symptom), Antibiotic, Antibody, Arthralgia, Aspartate transaminase, Atypical pneumonia, Axenic, Bacteria, Biological agent, Biosecurity, Bioterrorism, Blood compatibility testing, Brisbane, Brucellosis, Calling Dr. Kildare, Cat, Cattle, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chloramphenicol, Ciprofloxacin, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Confusion, Coxiella burnetii, CRC Press, CSL Limited, Dengue fever, Deseret Test Center, Diarrhea, Dog, Doxycycline, Dr. Kildare, Edward Holbrook Derrick, Elevated transaminases, Endemic (epidemiology), Endocarditis, Estrous cycle, Farmer, Feces, Feedlot, Fever, Fibrin ring granuloma, Francisella, Gammaproteobacteria, Goat, Goat farming, H. R. Cox, Headache, ... Expand index (69 more) »

  2. Rare infectious diseases
  3. Tick-borne diseases
  4. Zoonotic bacterial diseases

Abdomen

The abdomen (colloquially called the belly, tummy, midriff, tucky or stomach) is the part of the body between the thorax (chest) and pelvis, in humans and in other vertebrates.

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Acute respiratory distress syndrome

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a type of respiratory failure characterized by rapid onset of widespread inflammation in the lungs.

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Alanine transaminase

Alanine transaminase (ALT) is a transaminase enzyme.

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Anorexia (symptom)

Anorexia is a medical term for a loss of appetite.

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Antibiotic

An antibiotic is a type of antimicrobial substance active against bacteria.

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Antibody

An antibody (Ab) is the secreted form of a B cell receptor; the term immunoglobulin (Ig) can refer to either the membrane-bound form or the secreted form of the B cell receptor, but they are, broadly speaking, the same protein, and so the terms are often treated as synonymous.

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Arthralgia

Arthralgia literally means 'joint pain'.

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Aspartate transaminase

Aspartate transaminase (AST) or aspartate aminotransferase, also known as AspAT/ASAT/AAT or (serum) glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT, SGOT), is a pyridoxal phosphate (PLP)-dependent transaminase enzyme that was first described by Arthur Karmen and colleagues in 1954.

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Atypical pneumonia

Atypical pneumonia, also known as walking pneumonia, is any type of pneumonia not caused by one of the pathogens most commonly associated with the disease.

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Axenic

In biology, axenic describes the state of a culture in which only a single species, variety, or strain of organism is present and entirely free of all other contaminating organisms.

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Bacteria

Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.

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Biological agent

Biological weapons are pathogens used as weapons. Q fever and Biological agent are biological weapons.

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Biosecurity

Biosecurity refers to measures aimed at preventing the introduction and/or spread of harmful organisms (e.g. viruses, bacteria, plants, animals etc.) intentionally or unintentionally outside their native range and/or within new environments.

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Bioterrorism

Bioterrorism is terrorism involving the intentional release or dissemination of biological agents. Q fever and Bioterrorism are biological weapons.

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Blood compatibility testing

Blood compatibility testing is conducted in a medical laboratory to identify potential incompatibilities between blood group systems in blood transfusion.

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Brisbane

Brisbane (Meanjin) is the capital of the state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million.

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Brucellosis

Brucellosis is a zoonosis caused by ingestion of unpasteurized milk from infected animals, or close contact with their secretions. Q fever and Brucellosis are bacterium-related cutaneous conditions, biological weapons, Bovine diseases, sheep and goat diseases, zoonoses and zoonotic bacterial diseases.

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Calling Dr. Kildare

Calling Dr.

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Cat

The cat (Felis catus), commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal.

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Cattle

Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States.

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Chloramphenicol

Chloramphenicol is an antibiotic useful for the treatment of a number of bacterial infections.

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Ciprofloxacin

Ciprofloxacin is a fluoroquinolone antibiotic used to treat a number of bacterial infections.

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Clinical Infectious Diseases

Clinical Infectious Diseases is a peer-reviewed medical journal published by Oxford University Press covering research on the pathogenesis, clinical investigation, medical microbiology, diagnosis, immune mechanisms, and treatment of diseases caused by infectious agents.

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Confusion

In medicine, confusion is the quality or state of being bewildered or unclear.

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Coxiella burnetii

Coxiella burnetii is an obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen, and is the causative agent of Q fever. Q fever and Coxiella burnetii are biological weapons.

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CRC Press

The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books.

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CSL Limited

CSL Limited is an Australian multinational specialty biotechnology company that researches, develops, manufactures, and markets products to treat and prevent serious human medical conditions. CSL's product areas include blood plasma derivatives, vaccines, antivenom, and cell culture reagents used in various medical and genetic research and manufacturing applications.

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Dengue fever

Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease caused by dengue virus, prevalent in tropical and subtropical areas. Q fever and dengue fever are zoonoses.

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Deseret Test Center

The Deseret Test Center was a U.S. Army operated command in charge for testing chemical and biological weapons during the 1960s.

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Diarrhea

Diarrhea (American English), also spelled diarrhoea or diarrhœa (British English), is the condition of having at least three loose, liquid, or watery bowel movements in a day.

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Dog

The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf.

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Doxycycline

Doxycycline is a broad-spectrum antibiotic of the tetracycline class used in the treatment of infections caused by bacteria and certain parasites.

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Dr. Kildare

Dr.

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Edward Holbrook Derrick

Edward Holbrook Derrick (1898–1976) was an Australian pathologist, best known for his role in identifying Q fever.

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Elevated transaminases

In medicine, the presence of elevated transaminases, commonly the transaminases alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate transaminase (AST), may be an indicator of liver dysfunction.

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Endemic (epidemiology)

In epidemiology, an infection is said to be endemic in a specific population or populated place when that infection is constantly present, or maintained at a baseline level, without extra infections being brought into the group as a result of travel or similar means.

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Endocarditis

Endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium. Q fever and Endocarditis are rodent-carried diseases.

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Estrous cycle

The estrous cycle (originally) is a set of recurring physiological changes induced by reproductive hormones in females of mammalian subclass Theria.

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Farmer

A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials.

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Feces

Feces (or faeces;: faex) are the solid or semi-solid remains of food that was not digested in the small intestine, and has been broken down by bacteria in the large intestine.

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Feedlot

A feedlot or feed yard is a type of animal feeding operation (AFO) which is used in intensive animal farming, notably beef cattle, but also swine, horses, sheep, turkeys, chickens or ducks, prior to slaughter.

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Fever

Fever or pyrexia in humans is a body temperature above the normal range due to an increase in the body's temperature set point in the hypothalamus.

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Fibrin ring granuloma

A fibrin ring granuloma, also known as doughnut granuloma, is a histopathological finding that is characteristic of Q fever.

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Francisella

Francisella is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria.

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Gammaproteobacteria

Gammaproteobacteria is a class of bacteria in the phylum Pseudomonadota (synonym Proteobacteria).

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Goat

The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of domesticated goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock.

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Goat farming

Goat farming involves the raising and breeding of domestic goats (Capra aegagrus hircus) as a branch of animal husbandry.

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H. R. Cox

Herald Rea Cox (1907–1986) was an American bacteriologist.

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Headache

Headache, also known as cephalalgia, is the symptom of pain in the face, head, or neck.

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Hepatitis

Hepatitis is inflammation of the liver tissue.

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Hepatomegaly

Hepatomegaly is enlargement of the liver.

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Hydroxychloroquine

Hydroxychloroquine, sold under the brand name Plaquenil among others, is a medication used to prevent and treat malaria in areas where malaria remains sensitive to chloroquine. Other uses include treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and porphyria cutanea tarda. It is taken by mouth, often in the form of hydroxychloroquine sulfate.

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Immunohistochemistry

Immunohistochemistry is a form of immunostaining.

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Incubation period

Incubation period (also known as the latent period or latency period) is the time elapsed between exposure to a pathogenic organism, a chemical, or radiation, and when symptoms and signs are first apparent.

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Inflammation

Inflammation (from inflammatio) is part of the biological response of body tissues to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells, or irritants.

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Influenza

Influenza, commonly known as "the flu" or just "flu", is an infectious disease caused by influenza viruses. Q fever and influenza are zoonoses.

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Influenza-like illness

Influenza-like illness (ILI), also known as flu-like syndrome or flu-like symptoms, is a medical diagnosis of possible influenza or other illness causing a set of common symptoms.

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Inhalation

Inhalation (or inspiration) happens when air or other gases enter the lungs.

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Intracellular parasite

Intracellular parasites are microparasites that are capable of growing and reproducing inside the cells of a host.

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Jaundice

Jaundice, also known as icterus, is a yellowish or greenish pigmentation of the skin and sclera due to high bilirubin levels.

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Kangaroo

Kangaroos are marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot").

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Legionella

Legionella is a genus of pathogenic gram-negative bacteria that includes the species L. pneumophila, causing legionellosis (all illnesses caused by Legionella) including a pneumonia-type illness called Legionnaires' disease and a mild flu-like illness called Pontiac fever. Q fever and legionella are bacterial diseases.

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Leptospirosis

Leptospirosis is a blood infection caused by the bacteria Leptospira that can infect humans, dogs, rodents and many other wild and domesticated animals. Q fever and Leptospirosis are bacterium-related cutaneous conditions, Bovine diseases, rodent-carried diseases, sheep and goat diseases, zoonoses and zoonotic bacterial diseases.

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Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blyth; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director.

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List of domesticated animals

This page gives a list of domesticated animals, also including a list of animals which are or may be currently undergoing the process of domestication and animals that have an extensive relationship with humans beyond simple predation.

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Liver biopsy

Liver biopsy is the biopsy (removal of a small sample of tissue) from the liver.

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Livestock

Livestock are the domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting in order to provide labour and produce diversified products for consumption such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.

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Macfarlane Burnet

Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (3 September 1899 – 31 August 1985), usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist known for his contributions to immunology.

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Malaise

In medicine, malaise is a feeling of general discomfort, uneasiness or lack of wellbeing and often the first sign of an infection or other disease.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.

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Medical Journal of Australia

The Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 22 times a year.

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MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus is an online information service produced by the United States National Library of Medicine.

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Meningitis

Meningitis is acute or chronic inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, collectively called the meninges.

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Metritis

Metritis is inflammation of the wall of the uterus, whereas endometritis is inflammation of the functional lining of the uterus, called the endometrium.

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Microbiologist

A microbiologist (from Greek μῑκρος) is a scientist who studies microscopic life forms and processes.

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Milk

Milk is a white liquid food produced by the mammary glands of mammals.

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Monoclonal antibody

A monoclonal antibody (mAb, more rarely called moAb) is an antibody produced from a cell lineage made by cloning a unique white blood cell.

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Montana

Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Myalgia

Myalgia or muscle pain is a painful sensation evolving from muscle tissue.

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Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a disabling chronic illness.

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Nausea

Nausea is a diffuse sensation of unease and discomfort, sometimes perceived as an urge to vomit.

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Ofloxacin

Ofloxacin is a quinolone antibiotic useful for the treatment of a number of bacterial infections.

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Operation Whitecoat

Operation Whitecoat was a biodefense medical research program carried out by the United States Army at Fort Detrick, Maryland between 1954 and 1973.

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Pathogen

In biology, a pathogen (πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and -γενής, "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease.

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Paul Fiset

Paul Fiset (English pronunciation: Fih-ZAY; November 7, 1922 – February 27, 2001) was a Canadian-American microbiologist and virologist.

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Perspiration

Perspiration, also known as sweat, is the fluid secreted by sweat glands in the skin of mammals.

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Pine Bluff Arsenal

The Pine Bluff Arsenal is a United States Army installation in Jefferson County, Arkansas, about eight miles northwest of Pine Bluff and thirty miles southeast of Little Rock.

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Pleurisy

Pleurisy, also known as pleuritis, is inflammation of the membranes that surround the lungs and line the chest cavity (pleurae).

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Post-acute infection syndrome

Post-acute infection syndromes (PAISs) or post-infectious syndromes are medical conditions characterized by symptoms attributed to a prior infection.

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Post-exertional malaise

Post-exertional malaise (PEM), sometimes referred to as post-exertional symptom exacerbation (PESE) or post-exertional neuroimmune exhaustion (PENE), is a worsening of symptoms that occurs after minimal exertion.

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Project 112

Project 112 was a biological and chemical weapon experimentation project conducted by the United States Department of Defense from 1962 to 1973.

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Project SHAD

Project SHAD, an acronym for Shipboard Hazard and Defense, was part of a larger effort called Project 112, which was conducted during the 1960s.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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Quinolone antibiotic

Quinolone antibiotics constitute a large group of broad-spectrum bacteriocidals that share a bicyclic core structure related to the substance 4-quinolone.

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Retinal vasculitis

Retinal vasculitis is inflammation of the vascular branches of the retinal artery, caused either by primary ocular disease processes, or as a specific presentation of any systemic form of vasculitis such as Behçet's disease, sarcoidosis, multiple sclerosis, or any form of systemic necrotizing vasculitis such as temporal arteritis, polyarteritis nodosa, and granulomatosis with polyangiitis, or due to lupus erythematosus, or rheumatoid arthritis.

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Rickettsia

Rickettsia is a genus of nonmotile, gram-negative, nonspore-forming, highly pleomorphic bacteria that may occur in the forms of cocci (0.1 μm in diameter), bacilli (1–4 μm long), or threads (up to about 10 μm long).

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Ruminant

Ruminants are herbivorous grazing or browsing artiodactyls belonging to the suborder Ruminantia that are able to acquire nutrients from plant-based food by fermenting it in a specialized stomach prior to digestion, principally through microbial actions.

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Semen

Semen, also known as seminal fluid, is a bodily fluid that contains spermatozoa.

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Serology

Serology is the scientific study of serum and other body fluids.

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Sheep

Sheep (sheep) or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

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Sheep shearer

A sheep shearer is a worker who uses (hand-powered)-blade or machine shears to remove wool from domestic sheep during crutching or shearing.

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Signs and symptoms

Signs and symptoms are the observed or detectable signs, and experienced symptoms of an illness, injury, or condition.

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Slaughterhouse

In livestock agriculture and the meat industry, a slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir, is a facility where livestock animals are slaughtered to provide food.

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Tanning (leather)

Tanning, or hide tanning, is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather.

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Tetracycline

Tetracycline, sold under various brand names, is an oral antibiotic in the tetracyclines family of medications, used to treat a number of infections, including acne, cholera, brucellosis, plague, malaria, and syphilis.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tick

Ticks are parasitic arachnids of the order Ixodida.

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Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole

Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, sold under the brand name Bactrim among others, is a fixed-dose combination antibiotic medication used to treat a variety of bacterial infections.

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University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne (also colloquially known as Melbourne University) is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia.

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University of Melbourne Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences

The Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences (FVAS) was a faculty of the University of Melbourne until it was disestablished on 1 January 2023.

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Urine

Urine is a liquid by-product of metabolism in humans and in many other animals.

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Vaccine

A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease.

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Vaginal epithelium

The vaginal epithelium is the inner lining of the vagina consisting of multiple layers of (squamous) cells.

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Veterinary medicine

Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in non-human animals.

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Viral hepatitis

Viral hepatitis is liver inflammation due to a viral infection.

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Virology

Virology is the scientific study of biological viruses.

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Zoonosis

A zoonosis (plural zoonoses) or zoonotic disease is an infectious disease of humans caused by a pathogen (an infectious agent, such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion) that can jump from a non-human (usually a vertebrate) to a human and vice versa. Q fever and zoonosis are zoonoses.

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See also

Rare infectious diseases

Tick-borne diseases

Zoonotic bacterial diseases

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_fever

Also known as Goat Flu, O fever, Q Disease, Q fever vaccine, Q-fever, Query fever.

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