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Article: Respiratory symptoms like pneumonia are common; can be treated with macrolides.
- Article from:
- Respiratory Therapeutics Week
- Article date:
- June 2, 2003
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2003 JUN 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Q fever most often presents as pneumonia or other respiratory problems and is resolved by macrolide therapy.
According to recent research from Spain, "Sixty-six cases of Q fever in adults, serologically confirmed by indirect immunofluorescence, were studied to analyze the epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic aspects of the disease.
"Eighty-three percent of the patients were male, and the mean age was 44.7 years. Contact with animals was recorded in 24 patients.
"The main clinical form of presentation was pneumonia (37 cases); 8 patients had hypoxia, and 5 patients had respiratory failure," wrote M. ...