Waning population immunity prior to a large Q fever epidemic in the south of The Netherlands
Historical survey data suggest that the seroprevalence of antibodies against Coxiella burnetii in the general population of The Netherlands decreased from more than 40% in 1983 to 2.4% in 2007, just before the start of the large 2007-2010 Q fever epidemic. To assess whether the sharp decline in seroprevalence was real, we performed a cross-sectional study using historical samples. We tested samples using a contemporary commercial indirect immunofluorescence assay. In plasma samples from the south of The Netherlands from 1987, we found an age- and sex-standardized seroprevalence of 14.4% (95% c... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Brandwagt , D A H , Herremans , T , Schneeberger , P M , Hackert , V H , Hoebe , C J P A , Paget , J & Van der Hoek , W 2016 , ' Waning population immunity prior to a large Q fever epidemic in the south of The Netherlands ' , Epidemiology and Infection , vol. 144 , no. 13 , pp. 2866-2872 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268816000741 |
Schlagwörter: | Coxiella / epidemiology / infectious disease epidemiology / Q fever / zoonoses |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26822190 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/e23e0314-aa88-472d-b621-a9dba85fb76f |