Q Fever in Bulgaria and Slovakia.

From: Emerging Infectious Diseases | Date: May 1, 1999| Author: Gatcheva, N.; Kazar, J.; Kovacova, E.; Novkirishki, V.; Serbezov, V.; Voynova | Copyright information

As a result of dramatic political and economic changes in the beginning of the 19 Q-fever epidemiology in Bulgaria has changed. The number of goats almost triple contact between goat owners (and their families) and goats, as well as goats and other animals, increased; consumption of raw goat milk and its products increase and goats replaced cattle and sheep as the main source of human Coxiella burne infections. Hundreds of overt, serologically confirmed human cases of acute Q [ILLE...

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