Volume 224 - Issue 9
Q Fever Visceral Abscesses After Contact With Native Australian Marsupials
Authors: Samantha J. Laws, Enzo Binotto, James Stewart, Jennifer Ho, Trent Yarwood, Josh Hanson, Simon Smith
Correspondence: jhanson@kirby.unsw.edu.au
Med J Aust 2026 || doi: 10.5694/mja2.70305
Published online: 22 September 2026
Published online: 22 September 2026
Abstract
We describe two patients in Far North Queensland with acute Q fever. One patient had their infection complicated by a splenic abscess, the other developed a hepatic abscess. Both patients had contact with small Australian marsupials in the weeks before presentation and both required prolonged doxycycline to treat their infection.
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