Prevalence of antibodies to Coxiella burnetii among farming population in eastern Poland

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 265-267

  Cisak, Ewa ^a   Chmielewska Badora, Jolanta ^a   Mackiewicz, Barbara ^b   Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Coxiella burnetii; Epidemiology; Farmers; Poland; Q fever

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; COXIELLA BURNETII ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONVALESCENCE; COXIELLA BURNETII; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLAND; PREVALENCE; Q FEVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLAND; PREVALENCE; Q FEVER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COXIELLA BURNETII; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0346500671     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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