REPORT OF AN OUTBREAK OF Q FEVER AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH. I. CLINICAL FEATURES
Authors: C G SPICKNALL, R J HUEBNER
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1947)

Article1 July 1947REPORT OF AN OUTBREAK OF Q FEVER AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH. I. CLINICAL FEATURESCHARLES G. SPICKNALL, M.D., ROBERT J. HUEBNER, M.D., JAMES A. FINGER, M.D., WILLIAM P. BLOCKER, M.D.CHARLES G. SPICKNALL, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, ROBERT J. HUEBNER, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, JAMES A. FINGER, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, WILLIAM P. BLOCKER, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-27-1-28 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptAt the end of the first week of February 1946, a febrile illness began to appear among the workers in Building No. 5* of the National Institute of Health where research was being done on the rickettsia of Q fever. Eighteen cases occurred in an explosive manner between February 6 and February 11, 1946. 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C.†Surgeon, U. S. Public Health Service.‡Senior Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Public Health Service.§Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Public Health Service.*Building No. 5 is one of 8 buildings which house the Bethesda laboratories of the National Institute of Health. In this building are the Division of Infectious Diseases, Division of Biologics Control, and a dental unit of the Division of Physiology. 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