Q fever
Q fever
nounDefinition of Q FEVER
: a disease characterized by high fever, chills, muscular pains, headache, and sometimes pneumonia that is caused by a bacterium (Coxiella burnetii of the family Coxiellaceae) of which domestic animals serve as reservoirs and that is transmitted to humans especially by inhalation of infective airborne bacteria
Origin of Q FEVER
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First Known Use: 1937
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