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Microbiology Systemic Bacteriology (Haemophilus, Yersinia, Spirochaetes, Ricketssia, Chlamydia, Mycoplasma and Miscellaneous Bacteria) 101ac27c

A patient presented with interstitial pneumonia,denied being bitten by insects.Of the following rickettsial diseases, which could have been caused without an insect bite?

A
Scrub typhus
B
Rickettsial pox
C
Brill-Zinsser disease
D
Q fever
High-Yield Explanation
- Since the patient denied of being bitten by insects, the most likely rickettsial disease is Q fever. - Since out of 4 option only Q fever has no ahropod transmission . - It is transmitted by aerosol. - It is caused by Coxiella burnetti. - No rash occur in Q fever In scrub typhus vector is trombiculid mite In rickettsial pox the vector is mite. Caused by Rickettsia akari Brill Zinsser's disease / recrudescent typhus is reactivation of epidemic typhus in the human body

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