%0 Journal Article %9 ACL : Articles dans des revues avec comité de lecture répertoriées par l'AERES %A Angelakis, E. %A Mediannikov, Oleg %A Stein, A. %A Bassene, H. %A Sokhna, Cheikh %A Raoult, Didier %T Short Report : Throat swab samples for diagnosis of Q fever %D 2014 %L fdi:010061458 %G ENG %J American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene %@ 0002-9637 %M ISI:000329587200025 %N 1 %P 147-148 %R 10.4269/ajtmh.13-0490 %U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010061458 %> https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers20-08/010061458.pdf %V 90 %W Horizon (IRD) %X Oropharyngeal swabs collected from patients with Q fever from France and from febrile patients from Senegal were tested by molecular assays for Coxiella burnetii. One positive result (0.08%) occurred for only one patient with acute Q fever. Throat swabs cannot replace blood serum samples as diagnostic tools for Q fever. %$ 052