QFIG hosts expert advisory group sessions to assist clinicians to manage complex cases, with expertise available from across the spectrum of those working in the field, now with special international guests attending!
15.09.2025 07:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Dr L Taege 🗣️ unpub data RE: placental histo findings w/ #Qfever assoc stillbirth. Only 9 cases prev, this adds another 10 cases.
🔍 Varied degrees of inflam, necrosis, infarcts
🐥 Untreated assoc w/ 2nd trimester IUD, partial Rx pre-term delivery, full Rx no foetal effects
#Qfig @qfig.bsky.social
14.06.2025 07:58 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Dr Horvath et al outlined a diagnostic stewardship intervention for #qfever PCR (w/ compat. clin. synd.)
'TLC for Q':
🍽️ Thrombocytopenia,
🥩 raised LFTs
🎈 raised CRP
assoc w/ increase PCR+ in acute QF. Machine learning algorithm found 85% sens, 65% spec.
#IDsky #Qfig @qfig.bsky.social
14.06.2025 08:07 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A/Prof A Bosward talks #onehealth and #Qfever in dairy 🐄. Shows that:
⛽ Cows (& others) are an important reservoir of QF w/ regional clusters
🤒 Infected cows are less productive (longer gestations & 2.4L less 🥛/🐄/🌅)
Advocates for Australian uptake of animal QF vax.
#qfig @qfig.bsky.social #vetsky
15.06.2025 10:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Understanding Q fever at the molecular and genomic level. Presentations from Prof Hayley Newton, Monash Uni and Dr Tarka Raj Bhatta, ARRL.
15.06.2025 01:10 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
