Q fever in octogenarians.
Two of the 186 persons (1%) with acute Q fever examined in this study were 80 years of age or older. Both were males and both had Coxiella burnetti pneumonia. Q fever was not suspected during their hospital stay and would not have been diagnosed if these patients had not been part of a prospective study of community-acquired pneumonia.
Marrie
T J
TJ
Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002170:Canada / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D009674:Nova Scotia / Q000453:epidemiology; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000209:etiology; D011778:Q Fever / Q000453:epidemiology*