Acute Q fever among febrile patients in Zahedan, southeastern Iran

Abstract

It is shown that the electroweak physics of the electron and the muon is based on the left-right gauge model with the mixing parameters 0.2254 and 0.2746. These mixing parameters are determined by the masses of the electron and the muon. The electroweak physics of the Tau-lepton and its left-handed neutrino is based on the gauge group SU(2)LXU(1).The mixing parameter for this gauge model is 0.5 and is determined by the mass of the charged Tau-lepton. The W and Z bosons that mediate the electroweak physics of Tau-lepton and its neutrino have masses 173.5 GeV and 245.4 GeV, respectively.

Acute Q fever in febrile patients in northwestern of Iran

“…In this study, 32% of participants showed evidence of previous infection (past infection) to Q fever; this rate was less than one in Zahedan city (34.3%) [26] and Kerman Province (36%) [18]. In similar studies, 35.5% in Mali [29], 21.74% in Croatia [30] and 8.7% [27] in Denmark were previously infected with Q fever.…”

“…It was also shown that 32% of the participants had serological evidence of previous infection (past infection) to Q fever. In a similar study in Zahedan city (southeastern Iran) in 2011, 35.2% of 105 suspected feverish patients were diagnosed acute Q fever [26], which is much higher than the current report. Furthermore, in another study conducted among febrile patients suspected to have brucellosis in Kerman Province (southern Iran), 36% had phase II IgG antibody of Q fever [18].…”

“…In a study in southeastern Iran, contacts with domestic animals and consumption of unpasteurized dairy products were identified as risk factors [26]. In two studies conducted in Australia, France and Croatia, age and gender were reported as risk factors for acute Q fever [28,30,31].…”

“…In the similar study in southeastern Iran, major clinical symptoms in patients with acute Q fever were fever (100%), myalgia (59.4%), headaches (43.2%), and arthralgia (37.8) [26]. Fever (69%) and headaches (52%) were the most prevalent clinical symptoms in patients with acute Q fever in Mali [29].…”

First Seroprevalence Study of Coxiella burnetii in Rural Pregnant Women in Contact with Livestock in Khorramabad

“…In 2011, Metanat et al (12) designed a study in Zahedan in which 105 febrile patients with a probable diagnosis of brucellosis were investigated using the IFA technique for detecting C. burnetii antibodies in sera. The results showed that 35.2% of the patients had positive sera on the acute form of the fever and most people lived in rural areas.…”