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dust mite, q fever, infectious disease acquired from animals, bacterium coxiella burnetii, q fever, coxiella burnetii, an organism that lives in domestic animals cattle, sheep, goats, cats, wild animals, ticks also carry the bacteria, people get q fever after exposure to contaminated food, raw, unpasteurized, milk, after inhaling dust, droplets, in the air, contaminated, animal feces, blood, birth products, incubation period, 2 to 3 weeks, range from no symptoms to moderately severe symptoms resembling influenza, symptoms occur, last, several weeks, people at risk, infection include slaughterhouse workers, veterinarians, researchers, food processors, sheep, cattle workers, men, more commonly infected than women, most patients, between 30, 70 years old, disorder is occasionally seen in children, those who live on a farm, in infected children younger than 3 years old, q fever, discovered, a search, the cause of pneumonia, common symptoms, fever, headache, muscle pains, joint pain, arthralgia, dry cough, non-productive, chest pain, abdominal pain, jaundice, rash, physical examination, reveal crackles, in the lungs, an enlarged liver, spleen, liver function tests, hepatitis, low blood counts, antibodies, coxiella, found, in the blood, special stains done on infected tissues to identify the bacteria, a chest x-ray often shows pneumonia, tests performed, disease has affected the heart, antibiotics, shorten the length, the illness, antibiotics, commonly used include tetracycline, doxycycline, oral tetracycline, children, after all the permanent teeth have erupted, permanently discolor teeth, still forming, a general rule, recovery occurs, complications, very serious, life-threatening, recommended that this disorder be treated any time it is recognized, the cause of symptoms, relapse of infection, see q fever, endocarditis, infection of heart valves, chronic hepatitis, liver infection, encephalitis, brain infection, osteomyelitis, bone infection, pneumonia, lung infection, symptoms of q fever develop, have been treated, symptoms return, new symptoms develop, pasteurization of milk, adequate cooking of food destroys coxiella bacteria, domestic animals, inspected, signs, the disease, people exposed to them have developed symptoms of q fever.