Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3392933 | Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease | 2013 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
SummaryWe present the case of a 44-year-old civilian security officer medically evacuated from Iraq with acalculous cholecystitis and Guillain–Barré syndrome and subsequently found to have acute Q fever. The presenting features of Q fever in military and related personnel deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan are reviewed and the use of PCR in early diagnosis of Q fever is discussed. The atypical presentation in this case encourages clinicians to have a low threshold for considering Q fever as part of the differential diagnosis in soldiers and related personnel returning from these areas of high endemicity.
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Authors
B. White, T. Brooks, R.A. Seaton,