A client has been diagnosed with Coxiella burnetii infection. She asked the health care provider how she could have gotten this disease. The health care provider's best response is:
A) "Probably while walking outside without your shoes on."
B) "While swimming in an unsanitary pond."
C) "Drinking contaminated milk."
D) "Eating undercooked fish."
Ans: C
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In humans, Coxiella infection produces a disease called Q fever, characterized by a nonspecific febrile illness often accompanied by headache, chills, arthralgias, and mild pneumonia. The organism produces a highly resistant sporelike stage that is transmitted to humans when contaminated animal tissue is aerosolized (e.g., during meat processing) or by ingestion of contaminated milk.
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