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Published on: April 18, 2016
Throat swab samples for diagnosis of Q fever
Emmanouil Angelakis1, Oleg Mediannikov, Andreas Stein
1Faculte de Medecine, Aix Marseille Université, Marseille 13385, France; URMITE, UMR, IRD 198, Dakar, Senegal.
Abstract:
Oropharyngeal swabs collected from patients with Q fever from France and from febrile patients from Senegal were tested by molecular assays for Coxiella burnetii. One positive result (0.08%) occurred for only one patient with acute Q fever. Throat swabs cannot replace blood serum samples as diagnostic tools for Q fever.
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