ICD-11 classes
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
Other bacterial diseases
Rickettsioses
1C33 — Q fever
ICD-11 1C33 — Q fever
A disease caused by an infection with the gram-negative bacteria Coxiella burnetti. This disease is characterised by fever, or may be asymptomatic. Transmission is by inhalation of the bacteria, contact with contaminated milk, urine, faeces, vaginal mucus, or semen of infected animals, or through the bite of an infected tick.
It includes 3 items.
- Nine Mile fever
- Infection due to Coxiella burnetii
- Quadrilateral fever
The diagnosis excludes nothing.
It has no clarifying diagnoses.