Risk factors of coxiella burnetii (Q fever) seropositivity in veterinary medicine students

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  de Rooij, Myrna M T ^a   Schimmer, Barbara ^b   Versteeg, Bart ^b,c   Schneeberger, Peter ^c   Berends, Boyd R ^a   Heederik, Dick ^a   van der Hoek, Wim ^b   Wouters, Inge M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c JEROEN BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BOVIDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FARM ANIMAL; FEMALE; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; Q FEVER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; VETERINARY MEDICINE; ZOONOSIS; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COXIELLA BURNETII; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; Q FEVER; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; VETERINARY MEDICINE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84857439199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032108     Document Type: Article

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