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Q Fever in Young Children, Ghana

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  • In malaria-endemic areas, most fevers are attributed to Plasmodium falciparum infection and presumptively treated with expensive combination therapies [5]

  • We studied the prevalence of Q fever antibodies in 219 randomly selected children living in 9 rural villages of the Ashanti region, Ghana

  • Plasma was obtained by venous puncture from 2-year-old children after they had participated in a malaria control study and had been clinically monitored for 21 months

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