The radiographic features of epidemic and sporadic Q fever pneumonia
Gordon, J.D.; MacKeen, A.D.; Marrie, T.J.; Fraser, D.B.
Journal of the Canadian Association of Radiologists 35(3): 293-296
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0008-2902 PMID: 6501384 Document Number: 231487
Radiographic dissimilarities exist between the chest radiographs of patients with epidemic and sporadically-occurring Q fever pneumonia. Chest radiographs of 25 patients with Q fever pneumonia were retrospectively assessed, and demonstrated previously unreported differences between these two broad groups. Differing strains of Coxiella burnetii, or varying doses of the pathogen, are postulated as the pathogenetic mechanisms for the observed discrepant findings.