Q fevern.

Brit.

/ˈkjuː ˌfiːvə/, U.S.

/ˈkju ˌfivər/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Q n., query n.², fever n.¹

Etymology: < Q n., the initial letter of query n.² + fever n.¹Compare the following:1964 E. H. Derrick in Queensland's Health Dec. 11/2 ‘X’ is a recognised term for an unknown quantity. But Australia already had an ‘X disease’, now known as Murray valley encephalitis. However, the rest of the alphabet was open. Query also signified the unknown. ‘Q (for query) fever’ it became... Many have wrongly assumed that the ‘Q’ stands for Queensland.

Medicine.

A human disease caused by a small, Gram-negative intracellular bacterium, Coxiella burnetii, typically acquired by inhaling organisms shed by infected animals (usually sheep, cattle, or goats), and having a variety of clinical manifestations, esp. as an acute flu-like illness or pneumonia or as chronic endocarditis. Also: infection of animals with this bacterium, which is usually asymptomatic (rare).

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Rocky Mountain fever1878

trench fever1898

Rocky Mountain spotted fever1903

tsutsugamushi1906

mite typhus1921

tick typhus1921

mite-borne typhus1923

scrub typhus1929

Q fever1937

1937 E. H. Derrick in Med. Jrnl. Austral. 21 Aug. 282/1 The suspicion arose and gradually grew into a conviction that we were here dealing with a type of fever which had not been previously described. It became necessary to give it a name, and ‘Q’ fever was chosen to denote it until fuller knowledge should allow a better name.

1954 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 207/2 Aureomycin..is the most effective treatment yet for..Malta fever, abortus fever, Q fever, Rocky Mountain fever, psittacosis, and a host of other fevers.

1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Med. 71 765 There appear to have been no further military outbreaks of Q fever until the Cyprus epidemic of 1974.

1998 Vet. Microbiol. 64 1 (title) Survey of seroprevalence of Q fever in dogs in the southeast of France, French Guyana, Martinique, Senegal and the Ivory Coast.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	q fever
释义	Q fevern. Brit. /ˈkjuː ˌfiːvə/, U.S. /ˈkju ˌfivər/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Q n., query n.², fever n.¹ Etymology: < Q n., the initial letter of query n.² + fever n.¹Compare the following:1964 E. H. Derrick in Queensland's Health Dec. 11/2 ‘X’ is a recognised term for an unknown quantity. But Australia already had an ‘X disease’, now known as Murray valley encephalitis. However, the rest of the alphabet was open. Query also signified the unknown. ‘Q (for query) fever’ it became... Many have wrongly assumed that the ‘Q’ stands for Queensland. Medicine. A human disease caused by a small, Gram-negative intracellular bacterium, Coxiella burnetii, typically acquired by inhaling organisms shed by infected animals (usually sheep, cattle, or goats), and having a variety of clinical manifestations, esp. as an acute flu-like illness or pneumonia or as chronic endocarditis. Also: infection of animals with this bacterium, which is usually asymptomatic (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other rickettsial fevers Rocky Mountain fever1878 trench fever1898 Rocky Mountain spotted fever1903 tsutsugamushi1906 mite typhus1921 tick typhus1921 mite-borne typhus1923 scrub typhus1929 Q fever1937 1937 E. H. Derrick in Med. Jrnl. Austral. 21 Aug. 282/1 The suspicion arose and gradually grew into a conviction that we were here dealing with a type of fever which had not been previously described. It became necessary to give it a name, and ‘Q’ fever was chosen to denote it until fuller knowledge should allow a better name. 1954 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 207/2 Aureomycin..is the most effective treatment yet for..Malta fever, abortus fever, Q fever, Rocky Mountain fever, psittacosis, and a host of other fevers. 1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Med. 71 765 There appear to have been no further military outbreaks of Q fever until the Cyprus epidemic of 1974. 1998 Vet. Microbiol. 64 1 (title) Survey of seroprevalence of Q fever in dogs in the southeast of France, French Guyana, Martinique, Senegal and the Ivory Coast. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1937
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