| Literature DB >> 24166041 |
Emmanouil Angelakis1, Oleg Mediannikov, Andreas Stein, Hubert Bassene, Cheikh Sokhna, Didier Raoult.
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.Entities:
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Year: 2013 PMID: 24166041 PMCID: PMC3886411 DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0490
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Trop Med Hyg ISSN: 0002-9637 Impact factor: 2.345