[Laboratory diagnosis of Q-fever with the indirect immunofluorescence test].

Q-Fever nowadays presents the most diffuse disease in the world, caused by the microorganisms from the family Risckettiacae. This disease is Coxiellae burnetii. The laboratory diagnosis of the Q-Fever can be stated either by the isolation of the causer from the patient material, either by the proving of the specifically antibodies. The serologic diagnostics presents the choile method in Q-Fever. The aim of this work is to illustrate the results of the detection of the serum in patients with the clinical symptoms at the infeçtion Coxiellom burnetii. We tested the sera of the patient from the region of the Federation Bosnia and Herzegovina, which arrived in our laboratory in the period of November 2000 till May 2001. From the total 174 prepared sera specific IgM of the antibodies we found in cases, and the specific IgG of the antibodies in 54 sera.