Sexually Transmitted Q Fever | Zendy

Adriana Milazzo | Zendy; Robert Hall | Zendy; Paul A. Storm | Zendy; R J Harris | Zendy; William Winslow | Zendy; B. P. Marmion | Zendy

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Sexually Transmitted Q Fever

Author(s) -

Adriana Milazzo,

Robert Hall,

Paul A. Storm,

R J Harris,

William Winslow,

B. P. Marmion

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/321878

Subject(s) - q fever , coxiella burnetii , polymerase chain reaction , medicine , virology , semen , sexual transmission , rickettsiosis , transmission (telecommunications) , pun , biology , rickettsia , virus , andrology , genetics , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , linguistics , philosophy , microbicide , gene , electrical engineering , engineering

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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