Fatigue following acute Q-fever: a systematic literature review

G Morroy, SP Keijmel, CE Delsing, G Bleijenberg… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Long-term fatigue with detrimental effects on daily functioning often occurs
following acute Q-fever. Following the 2007–2010 Q-fever outbreak in the Netherlands with …

The international collaborative on fatigue following infection (COFFI)

BZ Katz, SM Collin, G Murphy… - … biomedicine, health & …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background: The purpose of the Collaborative on Fatigue Following Infection (COFFI) is for
investigators of post-infection fatigue (PIF) and other syndromes to collaborate on these …

Explaining the long-term impact of chronic Q fever and Q fever fatigue syndrome on psychosocial functioning: A comparison with diabetes and the general population

DFM Reukers, CHM van Jaarsveld, H Knoop… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective After Q fever infection, 1–5% of patients develop chronic Q fever, while about 20%
develops Q fever fatigue syndrome (QFS). This study examines whether these two …

Male–female differences in quality of life and coping style in patients with Marfan syndrome and hereditary thoracic aortic diseases

CGE Thijssen, DE Doze, AL Gökalp… - Journal of genetic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hereditary thoracic aortic diseases (HTAD) such as Marfan syndrome (MFS) affect multiple
organ systems and provide a risk of acute aortic dissection, which causes lifelong …

Q-fever patients suffer from impaired health status long after the acute phase of the illness: results from a 24-month cohort study

JAF van Loenhout, JLA Hautvast, JH Vercoulen… - Journal of Infection, 2015 - Elsevier
Objectives During the largest Q-fever outbreak ever reported, a cohort study was established
to assess the health status of Q-fever patients over a 24-month period and to identify factors …

Serious long-term health consequences of Q-fever and Legionnaires' disease

JAF van Loenhout, HHMM van Tiel, J van den Heuvel… - Journal of Infection, 2014 - Elsevier
Background We assessed and compared the long-term health status of Q-fever patients and
patients with Legionnaires' disease. Methods Q-fever patients and patients with …

Severely impaired health status of non-notified Q fever patients leads to an underestimation of the true burden of disease

JAF van Loenhout, CCH Wielders, G Morroy… - Epidemiology & …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Q fever patients are often reported to experience a long-term impaired health status,
including fatigue, which can persist for many years. During the large Q fever epidemic in The …

Chronic Q fever: patient and treatment-related factors influencing long-term quality of life

SE Van Roeden, DFM Reukers… - … Journal of Medicine, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Chronic Q fever is accompanied by high mortality and morbidity, and requires
prolonged antibiotic treatment. Little is known on long-term quality of life (LQOL) in chronic Q …

Q-Fieber

D Frangoulidis, SF Fischer - DMW-Deutsche Medizinische …, 2015 - thieme-connect.com
Im Artikel werden kurz die wichtigsten neueren Erkenntnisse über die Erkrankung des
Erregers Coxiella burnetii, das Q-Fieber, dargestellt. Neben neuen diagnostischen …

Vascular chronic Q fever: quality of life

JCJP Hagenaars, PC Wever, SOA Shamelian… - Epidemiology & …, 2015 - cambridge.org
The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of life in patients with vascular chronic Q
fever at time of diagnosis and during follow-up. Based upon the SF-36 questionnaire, the …