| [the effect of herd and animal factors on the detection of complement-binding antibodies against coxiella burnetii in cattle]. | to determine the prevalence of bovine coxiella (c.) burnetii infections in northern lower saxony, blood serum obtained from a total of 2160 cattle was examined for antibodies against c. burnetii using the complement fixation test (cft). from 500 randomly sampled cattle, 38 (7.6%) were seropositive. in 383 cows out of 33 dairy herds with the history of reproductive problems a significantly higher prevalence of c. burnetii specific antibodies was found than in 665 cows out of 39 herds without repr ... | 1994 | 8067989 |
| [effects of vaccination against q-fever in lower saxony dairy cattle farms]. | being a notifiable and zoonotic disease, q-fever is coming under increasing focus of epizootic disease control. current studies indicate that the disease is more widespread in germany than the number of notifications suggest. therefore, since 2013, under certain conditions a hardship allowance is granted by the animal diseases fund of lower saxony for the vaccine costs of the basic immunization to support affected farms. material und methods: all farmers, on whose farms clinical signs of q-fever ... | 2017 | 28290594 |
| investigations concerning the prevalence of coxiella burnetii and chlamydia abortus in sheep in correlation with management systems and abortion rate in lower saxony in 2004. | the intracellular bacteria coxiella (c) burnetii and chlamydia (chl) abortus induce abortion in sheep and also affect humans. while chl. abortus only infrequently infects humans, c burnetii is the aetiological agent of numerous q fever outbreaks during the last decades. there is only limited knowledge about the prevalence of both pathogens in sheep, although sheep are involved in almost all q fever outbreaks in germany. the aim of our study was to investigate the prevalence of both pathogens in ... | 2015 | 22515032 |