| 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 |