| [acute q fever: 35 cases in castilla-la mancha]. | we report 35 sporadic cases of acute q fever diagnosed in the area of castilla-la mancha (spain). diagnosis was based on a fourfold or greater rise in specific antibody titer. the mean age of the patients was 33 years and the male/female ratio was 2.5. seventeen patients had hepatitis, 9 had pneumonia, 8 had isolated fever and 1 had myocarditis. an underlying disease was more frequent among patients with pneumonia. | 2004 | 15207121 |
| [seroepidemiology of coxiella burnetii infection among blood donors in albacete]. | the objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of antibodies to coxiella burnetii among blood donors and to examine the epidemiological characteristics of c. burnetii infection in albacete, spain. | 2007 | 17583651 |
| wide exposure to coxiella burnetii in ruminant and feline species living in a natural environment: zoonoses in a human-livestock-wildlife interface. | assessment of the role of wild and domestic hosts as potential reservoirs of misdiagnosed zoonoses, such as q fever by coxiella burnetii, is an important public health issue today both for wildlife conservation and management of disease in human-livestock-wildlife interface. this study used elisa, an indirect antibody, to research (2003-2013) c. burnetii infection in seven free-living wild and domestic ruminant species and in european wildcats (felis silvestris). the animals studied were 0 europ ... | 2017 | 27776577 |
| [coxiella burnetii: serologic study in various populations]. | complement binding antibodies against coxiella burnetii were measured in 699 seric samples in order to ascertain the possible relationship between seric prevalence and the following factors: age, sex, living in rural or urban areas and socio-economical level. all patients were healthy: 180 were from a rural area 86 from guijo (cáceres); 36 from chiloeches (guadalajara) and 58 from bustarviejo (madrid); 519 were from an urban area (city of madrid). the samples from madrid city were classified by ... | 1990 | 2104096 |