A probably minor role for land-applied goat manure in the transmission of Coxiella burnetii to humans in the 2007-2010 Dutch Q fever outbreak.

In 2007, Q fever started to become a major public health problem in the Netherlands, with small ruminants as most probable source. In order to reduce environmental contamination, control measures for manure were implemented because of the assumption that manure was highly contaminated with Coxiella...

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Main Authors: René van den Brom, Hendrik-Jan Roest, Arnout de Bruin, Daan Dercksen, Inge Santman-Berends, Wim van der Hoek, Annemiek Dinkla, Jelmer Vellema, Piet Vellema
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4376525?pdf=render