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ArticleTropical animal health and production2021

Seroprevalence of Coxiella burnetii in a dairy cattle herd from the Al Ain region, United Arab Emirates.

Robert Barigye, Nabeeha Abdelgaleel D Hassan, Ibrahim M Abdalla Alfaki, Mike B Barongo, Mohamed Elfatih H Mohamed, Khaja Mohteshamuddin

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Article in Tropical animal health and production, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2026
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  4. Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Robert BarigyeDepartment of Veterinary Medicine, College of Food and Agriculture, United Arab Emirates University, P. O Box 15551, Al Ain, UAE. rbarigye@uaeu.ac.ae.
Nabeeha Abdelgaleel D HassanDepartment of Veterinary Medicine, College of Food and Agriculture, United Arab Emirates University, P. O Box 15551, Al Ain, UAE.
Ibrahim M Abdalla AlfakiDepartment of Data Analytics in the Digital Era, College of Business and Economics, United Arab Emirates University, P. O Box 15551, Al Ain, UAE.
Mike B BarongoAcademic Registrar Department, Makerere University, P. O Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda.
Mohamed Elfatih H MohamedDepartment of Veterinary Medicine, College of Food and Agriculture, United Arab Emirates University, P. O Box 15551, Al Ain, UAE.
Khaja MohteshamuddinDepartment of Veterinary Medicine, College of Food and Agriculture, United Arab Emirates University, P. O Box 15551, Al Ain, UAE.
United Arab Emirates University · AEMakerere University · UG

Funding

United Arab Emirates University G00002201
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present study assessed the serostatus of Coxiella burnetii in a dairy cattle herd from the Al Ain region, UAE. In addition, the study evaluated the relationship between C. burnetii seropositivity and history of abortion and cattle age. Blood/sera from 759 cattle were tested by ELISA, and the data analyzed by the Pearson Chi-square test (PCST), odds ratios, and logistic regression. Of the 759 study cattle, 36.5% (277/759) were seropositive while 63.5% (482/759) were seronegative for C. burnetii. Additionally, 19.5% (148/759) of the cattle had ever aborted while 80.5% (611/759) had not. Meanwhile, 34.3% (95/277) of the C. burnetii-seropositive cattle (CBSPos) had history of abortion while 65.7% (182/277) did not. By comparison, only 11.0% (53/482) of the C. burnetii-seronegative (CBSNeg) cattle had history of abortion while 89.0% (429/482) had never aborted. The difference in the conditional probabilities of CBSPos or CBSNeg cattle that had history of abortion was statistically significant (PCST; p value 0.001), as was the association between a CBSPos outcome and history of abortion (p value 0.0001). Moreover, the odds of prior abortion having occurred in CBSPos were 4.3 times higher than in CBSNeg cattle. Similarly, the log of the odds of past abortions was positively correlated with C. burnetii seropositivity and cattle age (p value < 0.001). These data demonstrate apparent C. burnetii infections in cattle from the UAE in which the risk of abortion appears to increase with cattle age. Molecular testing for C. burnetii and comprehensive investigations of other abortigenic pathogens in the study cattle herd are recommended.

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Cattle DiseasesQ FeverAnimalsCattleCoxiella burnetiiEnzyme-Linked Immunosorbent AssayFemalePregnancySeroepidemiologic StudiesUnited Arab EmiratesAbortionCattleCoxiella burnetiiUnited Arab Emirates

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