Land-applied goat manure as a source of human Q-fever in the Netherlands, 2006-2010

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Hermans, Tia ^a   Jeurissen, Leonne ^a   Hackert, Volker ^b,c   Hoebe, Christian ^b,c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b South Limburg Public Health Service   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOAT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANURE; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; POPULATION RESEARCH; Q FEVER; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; COXIELLA BURNETII; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; GOAT DISEASES; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SHEEP; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME; ZOONOSES;

MANURE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COXIELLA BURNETII; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MANURE; NETHERLANDS; Q FEVER; SEASONS; SHEEP; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84900402054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096607     Document Type: Article

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