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Q J Med 2002; 95: 832-833
© 2002 Association of Physicians

Correspondence

Q fever: still a mysterious disease

B.P. Marmion, R.J. Harris, P.A. Storm and L. Semendric

Q Fever Research Group, Adelaide, Australia

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Sir,

In the concluding paragraph of his editorial,1 Dr Raoult makes a statement about the dangers of false-positive PCR assays arising from DNA contamination during the detection of Coxiella burnetii. The caution references a study2 from our Q fever Research Group. The general reader is likely to conclude that the artifacts mentioned by Raoult invalidate our observations. We urge the reader to study the actualities of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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