TY - JOUR
T1 - Q fever in members of the United States armed forces returning from Iraq.
AU - Leung-Shea, Charmaine
AU - Danaher, Patrick J.
N1 - Funding Information:
Case report 1. In September 2003, a 39-year-old male member of the US Army was evaluated in the Infectious Diseases Clinic at David Grant US Air Force Medical Center (Travis Air Force Base, CA) for a resolved febrile illness. He had been deployed to Iraq from April to July of 2003. While in Iraq, he lived and ate in the community. The house in which he lived bordered on what had once been a large sheep farm, and sheep carcasses were still present in the area. The farewell party that his Iraqi friends threw for him included the ceremonial slaughter of a sheep. He started weekly mefloquine therapy 2 weeks prior to entering Iraq, but stopped therapy 2 weeks prior to his return to the United States.
Funding Information:
Laboratory Corporation of America, Research Triangle Park, NC Armstrong Laboratory, Epidemiologic Research Division, Brooks Air Force Base, TX Centers for Disease Control and Pre- vention, Atlanta, GA US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, MD US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, MD Laboratory Corporation of America, Research Triangle Park, NC Centers for Disease Control and Pre- vention, Atlanta, GA Armstrong Laboratory, Epidemiologic Research Division, Brooks Air Force Base, TX Laboratory Corporation of America, Research Triangle Park, NC
Funding Information:
Departments of 1Internal Medicine and 2Infectious Diseases, David Grant US Air Force Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base, California
PY - 2006/10/15
Y1 - 2006/10/15
N2 - Large numbers of armed forces personnel returning from southwest Asia may present with infections that are not endemic to the United States or that occur rarely and are underdiagnosed in the United States. We report 2 cases of acute Q fever in members of the US Military recently returned from Iraq. Because a number of recent reports suggest that the risk of Q fever may be higher than initially thought among US forces deployed to this region, clinicians need to have a high index of clinical suspicion, an understanding of the available diagnostic tests, and knowledge regarding the methodology and capabilities of the laboratory to which specimens are submitted.
AB - Large numbers of armed forces personnel returning from southwest Asia may present with infections that are not endemic to the United States or that occur rarely and are underdiagnosed in the United States. We report 2 cases of acute Q fever in members of the US Military recently returned from Iraq. Because a number of recent reports suggest that the risk of Q fever may be higher than initially thought among US forces deployed to this region, clinicians need to have a high index of clinical suspicion, an understanding of the available diagnostic tests, and knowledge regarding the methodology and capabilities of the laboratory to which specimens are submitted.
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U2 - 10.1086/507639
DO - 10.1086/507639
M3 - Article
C2 - 16983603
AN - SCOPUS:34548165086
VL - 43
SP - e77-82
JO - Clinical Infectious Diseases
JF - Clinical Infectious Diseases
SN - 1058-4838
IS - 8
ER -