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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2018

A Q Fever Outbreak with a High Rate of Abortions at a Dairy Goat Farm: Coxiella burnetii Shedding, Environmental Contamination, and Viability.

Raquel Álvarez-Alonso, Mikel Basterretxea, Jesús F Barandika, Ana Hurtado, Jasone Idiazabal, Isabel Jado, Xabier Beraza, Milagros Montes, Paloma Liendo, Ana L García-Pérez

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Raquel Álvarez-AlonsoDepartment of Animal Health, NEIKER-Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario, Derio, Biscay, Spain.
Mikel BasterretxeaDepartment of Epidemiology, Subdirección de Salud Pública de Gipuzkoa, Gobierno Vasco, Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), San Sebastian, Spain.
Jesús F BarandikaDepartment of Animal Health, NEIKER-Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario, Derio, Biscay, Spain.
Ana HurtadoDepartment of Animal Health, NEIKER-Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario, Derio, Biscay, Spain.
Jasone IdiazabalDepartment of Epidemiology, OSALAN-Instituto Vasco de Seguridad y Salud Laborales, San Sebastian, Spain.
Isabel JadoInstituto de Salud Carlos III, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain.
Xabier BerazaDepartment of Epidemiology, Subdirección de Salud Pública de Bizkaia, Gobierno Vasco, Bilbao, Biscay, Spain.
Milagros MontesDepartment of Microbiology, Hospital Universitario Donostia, Biomedical Research Center Network for Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), San Sebastian, Spain.
Paloma LiendoDepartment of Microbiology, Hospital Universitario de Basurto, Bilbao, Biscay, Spain.
Ana L García-PérezDepartment of Animal Health, NEIKER-Instituto Vasco de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario, Derio, Biscay, Spain agarcia@neiker.eus.ORCID 0000-0001-7404-1380
NEIKER, the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development · ESBasque Government · ESBiogipuzkoa Health Research Institute · ESHospital de Basurto · ESInstituto de Salud Carlos III · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study describes a Q fever outbreak in a herd of 77 Alpine goats which suffered a high rate of abortions (81% [58/72]) in January 2017 and presents the results of monitoring the contamination and viability of

Indexed as

Bacterial SheddingMicrobial ViabilityAbortion, VeterinaryAnimalsChlorocebus aethiopsCoxiella burnetiiDisease OutbreaksDNA, BacterialEnvironmental MicrobiologyFarmersFarmsFecesFemaleGoat DiseasesGoatsHumansDNA, BacterialCoxiella burnetiidustgoatsMSTSNPviability

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PMID30076194
PMCPMC6182892
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