Q fever and early pregnancy failure: a Scottish case-control study.

Reproduction & Fertility Pub Date : 2021-12-24 eCollection Date: 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1530/RAF-21-0072
Nick Wheelhouse, Sadie Kemp, Jo E B Halliday, Efstathios Alexandros Tingas, W Colin Duncan, Andrew W Horne
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Q fever is a bacterial disease that passes between animals and humans and causes disease in both. The disease has been associated with pregnancy complications including miscarriage. This study was undertaken to identify if Q fever exposure was correlated with miscarriage in 369 women attending a pregnancy support unit in Edinburgh. The women in the study were in two groups, the miscarriage group with 251 women who had experienced a miscarriage and a control group of 118 women who had not experienced miscarriage. Three women were found to be positive for Q fever antibodies, suggesting that they had previously been exposed to the infection and all of them were from the group who had experienced miscarriage. The study indicates that Q fever is relatively rare in women attending an urban Scottish hospital suggesting that the infection is not a major cause of miscarriage in this population. However, as Q fever antibodies could only be found in women within the miscarriage group, it suggests that the infection cannot be ruled out as a potential cause of miscarriage in individual cases.

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Q热与妊娠早期失败:苏格兰病例对照研究。
Q热是一种细菌性疾病,在动物和人类之间传播,并导致两者都患病。该病与包括流产在内的妊娠并发症有关。这项研究是为了确定Q热暴露是否与在爱丁堡妊娠支持单位就诊的369名妇女流产有关。研究中的女性分为两组,流产组有251名经历过流产的女性,对照组有118名没有经历过流产的女性。三名妇女被发现Q热抗体呈阳性,这表明她们以前曾接触过这种感染,而且她们都来自经历过流产的那一组。该研究表明,在苏格兰城市医院就诊的女性中,Q热相对罕见,这表明这种感染并不是导致该人群流产的主要原因。然而,由于Q热抗体只能在流产组中发现,这表明在个别病例中不能排除感染是流产的潜在原因。
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