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Q fever epidemic in Hungary, April to July 2013.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 31 Jul 2014
Gyuranecz M, Sulyok Km, Balla E, Mag T, Balazs A, Simor Z, Denes B, Hornok S, Bajnoczi P, Hornstra Hm, Pearson T, Keim P, Dan A
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We investigated a Q fever outbreak with human patients showing high fever, respiratory tract symptoms, headache and retrosternal pain in southern Hungary in the spring and summer of 2013. Seventy human cases were confirmed by analysing their serum and blood samples with micro-immunofluorescence test and real-time PCR. The source of infection was a merino sheep flock of 450 ewes, in which 44.6% (25/56)...
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