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Human dose response relation for airborne exposure to Coxiella burnetii
The recent outbreak of Q fever in the Netherlands between 2007 and 2009 is the largest recorded Q fever outbreak. Exposure to Coxiella burnetii may cause Q fever but the size of the population exposed during the outbreak remained uncertain as little is known of the infectivity of this disease...
...Our model shows that the proportion of symptomatic infections may vary with the exposure dose. This implies that presence of these bacteria in the environment, even in small numbers, poses a serious health risk to the population.
Author: Russell John BrookeMirjam EE KretzschmarNico T MuttersPeter F Teunis
Credits/Source: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013, 13:488
Published on: 2013-10-21
Human dose response relation for airborne exposure to Coxiella burnetii
The recent outbreak of Q fever in the Netherlands between 2007 and 2009 is the largest recorded Q fever outbreak. Exposure to Coxiella burnetii may cause Q fever but the size of the population exposed during the outbreak remained uncertain as little is known of the infectivity of this disease...
...Our model shows that the proportion of symptomatic infections may vary with the exposure dose. This implies that presence of these bacteria in the environment, even in small numbers, poses a serious health risk to the population.
Author: Russell John BrookeMirjam EE KretzschmarNico T MuttersPeter F Teunis
Credits/Source: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013, 13:488
Published on: 2013-10-21