Integrating interdisciplinary methodologies for One Health: Goat farm re-implicated as the probable source of an urban Q fever outbreak, the Netherlands, 2009

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ladbury, Georgia A F ^a,b   Van Leuken, Jeroen P G ^a,c   Swart, Arno ^a   Vellema, Piet ^d   Schimmer, Barbara ^a   Ter Schegget, Ronald ^e   Van der Hoek, Wim ^a  

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

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d GD ANIMAL HEALTH   (Netherlands)

^e Municipal Health Service Brabant Zuidoost ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Airborne; Atmospheric dispersion model; Coxiella burnetii; Q fever; Spatio temporal analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOAT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; Q FEVER; RISK FACTOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; VETERINARY MEDICINE; ABORTION, VETERINARY; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; CITY; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; VETERINARY;

ABORTION, VETERINARY; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CITIES; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC HEALTH; Q FEVER; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84940645203     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-015-1083-9     Document Type: Article

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