Q fever in Woolsorters, Belgium

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2368-2369

  Wattiau, Pierre ^a   Boldisova, Eva ^b   Toman, Rudolf ^b   van Esbroeck, Marjan ^c   Quoilin, Sophie ^d   Hammadi, Samia ^d   Tissot Dupont, Hervé ^e   Raoult, Didier ^e   Henkinbrant, Jean Marie ^f   van Hessche, Mieke ^a   Fretin, David ^a  

^a VETERINARY AND AGROCHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^f Occupational Health Medicine Group Provikmo   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY;

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; BELGIUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GOAT; HAIR; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INDUSTRY; LETTER; MICROBIOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Q FEVER; SEROLOGY; SEROPREVALENCE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; WOOL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; BELGIUM; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; COXIELLA BURNETII; GOATS; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; Q FEVER; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SHEEP, DOMESTIC; WOOL;

EID: 84930479798     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1712.101786     Document Type: Letter

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