Q J Med 2002; 95: 833-834
© 2002 Association of Physicians
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Heartlands Research Institute, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham e-mail: martin.wildman@lshtm.ac.uk
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Sir,
We were interested to read the editorial by Raoult1 relating to our papers on chronic fatigue
following Q fever. In the editorial, he suggested that the reported percentage
of fatigue amongst controls in the Wildman et al. study2 was high in contrast to studies
from England, which he cited as showing a fatigue prevalence of to 9.911.7%.
It is unclear where the figures of