Munckhof W J, Runnegar N, Gray T J, Taylor C, Palmer C, Holley A
Infection Management Service, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia.
Intern Med J. 2007 Nov;37(11):775-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2007.01489.x.
We described two rare severe and fulminant clinical presentations of acute Q fever. The first patient had severe multiorgan failure. The second patient had fever and severe cholera-like diarrhoea. Coxiella burnetii polymerase chain reaction on blood or serum can be clinically useful in the diagnosis of acute Q fever before seroconversion.