Brucella and Coxiella; if you don't look, you don't find

We thank Dr Giles Youngs and Dr Peter Stride for highlighting a factual error in an article on Brucella and Coxiella (Clin Med 2015;15:91–2). The authors confirm that the statement ‘Coxiella burnetii is the cause of Q fever, a term first used in 1983 during the investigation of a cluster of febrile Australian meat workers’ should in fact read, ‘Coxiella burnetii is the cause of Q fever, a term first used in 1937 during the investigation of a cluster of febrile Australian meat workers’.