Q Fever in Human and Livestock Populations in Oman
| Autor: | Said H. S. Al-Dhahry, Jean-Marc Rolain, S. I.N. Al-Ismaily, H. S. El-Khatim, Didier Raoult, Euan M. Scrimgeour |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Veterinary medicine Oman Cattle Diseases Sheep Diseases Q fever Disease General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology History and Philosophy of Science medicine Animals Humans Goat Diseases Sheep Geography biology business.industry Goats General Neuroscience Coxiella burnetii biology.organism_classification medicine.disease University hospital Herd Cattle Livestock Q Fever business |
| Zdroj: | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 990:221-225 |
| ISSN: | 1749-6632 0077-8923 |
| Popis: | In 2000, Q fever was documented for the first time in the Sultanate of Oman in two patients, one with chronic pericarditis and the other with acute pneumonia. In 2001, a study of a randomly selected group of 102 adult patients from different provinces in northern Oman, presenting to the University Hospital in Muscat with unrelated conditions (e.g., diabetes mellitus, ischemic heart disease), revealed that 10 (9.8%) were seropositive for previous Coxiella burnetii infection. Examination of sera from a randomly selected group of 54 healthy goats from eight different herds from three different provinces of Oman, obtained by the Veterinary Research Center in Muscat, revealed that 28 (52%) had been infected, and 5 sheep, each from one of four herds, were seropositive for C. burnetii. We suspect that Q fever is widely prevalent in human populations in Oman, and that infection is widespread in goat, and probably sheep and other livestock populations, throughout the country. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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