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Q fever in American English
a mild illness characterized by fever, headache, muscular pains, and pneumonia, transmitted by contact or ticks, and caused by a rickettsia (Coxiella burnetii)
noun: an acute, influenzalike disease caused by the rickettsia Coxiella burnetti

Q fever in British English
noun: an acute disease characterized by fever and pneumonia, transmitted to humans by the rickettsia Coxiella burnetii

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