Seroprevalence of antibodies to Coxiella burnetii among employees of the Veterinary University in Košice, Eastern Slovakia

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 119-124

  Dorko, Erik ^a   Kalinová, Zuzana ^a   Weissová, Tatiana ^b   Pilipčinec, Emil ^b  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Animal nurses; Antibodies; Coxiella burnetii; ELISA; Q fever; Veterinarians

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AEROSOL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DAIRY PRODUCT; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EMPLOYEE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FARM ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INHALATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILK; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PET ANIMAL; Q FEVER; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; SLOVAKIA; TICK; UNIVERSITY; VENOUS BLOOD; ZOONOSIS;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; Q FEVER; RURAL POPULATION; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SLOVAKIA; VETERINARIANS; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; COXIELLA BURNETII; IXODIDA;

EID: 46349084324     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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