Sexually Transmitted Q Fever
Clinical Infectious Diseases2001Vol. 33(3), pp. 399–402
Citations Over TimeTop 14% of 2001 papers
Abstract
We report the sexual transmission of Coxiella burnetii from a man with occupationally acquired Q fever to his wife. Fifteen days after coitus, his wife also developed serologically proven acute Q fever. C. burnetii DNA sequences were detected by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) performed on semen samples obtained from the husband at 4 and 15 months after the onset of acute Q fever, but PCR results were variable at 23 months, indicating the presence of few organisms.
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