Long-term persistence after acute Q fever of non-infective Coxiella burnetii cell components, including antigens

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BACKGROUND: Previous studies of inciting factors for a prolonged post-infection fatigue syndrome after Q fever (variously termed QFS or Q fever associated CFS/ME in the literature) showed that after the acute infection a high proportion of asymptomatic and QFS patients had Q fever antibody and also low levels in PBMC and bone marrow of Coxiella burnetii (C.b.) DNA with PCR assays directed against three different...

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