Abstract
Q Fever in Woolsorters, Belgium
Highlights
To the Editor: Recent outbreaks of Q fever in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom raised public awareness about this ubiquitous bacterial disease known for decades to circulate worldwide [1,2,3,4]
Qfever seroprevalence in the general population in Europe ranges from 2.4% to >30% in some countries in the Mediterranean region [5]
Epidemiologic, and microbiological Q fever survey conducted in a scouring factory that processed wool and goat hair products in Belgium
Summary
To the Editor: Recent outbreaks of Q fever in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom raised public awareness about this ubiquitous bacterial disease known for decades to circulate worldwide [1,2,3,4]. Epidemiologic, and microbiological Q fever survey conducted in a scouring factory that processed wool and goat hair products in Belgium. Airborne dust collected inside the factory during goat hair processing [9] contained 102–103 genome equivalents of Coxiella burnetii, the Q fever agent, per liter of air as estimated by realtime PCR (Laboratoire Service International, Lissieu, France)
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