The Correlation of Q Fever and Coxiella burnetii DNA in Household Environments in Rural Senegal

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 70-72

  Ratmanov, Pavel ^a   Bassene, Hubert ^b   Fenollar, Florence ^a   Tall, Adama ^c   Sokhna, Cheikh ^b   Raoult, Didier ^a   Mediannikov, Oleg ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR DE DAKAR   (Senegal)

Author keywords

Coxiella burnetii; Epidemiology; PCR; Q fever

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DUST;

ARTICLE; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DETERMINATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; RURAL AREA; SENEGAL; SEROPREVALENCE; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DUST; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; GENETICS; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; ZOONOSIS;

COXIELLA BURNETII;

ANIMALS; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA, BACTERIAL; DUST; ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; Q FEVER; RURAL POPULATION; SENEGAL; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84872199263     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2012.1060     Document Type: Article

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