Q Fever Update, Maritime Canada

Abstract

Since the 1990s, reports of Q fever in Nova Scotia, Canada, have declined. Passive surveillance for Q fever in Nova Scotia and its neighboring provinces in eastern Canada indicates that the clinical manifestation of Q fever in the Maritime provinces is pneumonia and that incidence of the disease may fluctuate.

Keywords

• Q fever
• Coxiella burnetii
• pneumonia
• Nova Scotia
• New Brunswick
• Prince Edward Island