Article
The relevance of the wild reservoir in zoonotic diseases: the relationship between Iberian wildlife and Coxiella burnetii.
2022-03-30
Abstract excerpt
Throughout history, wildlife has been an important source of infectious diseases transmissible to humans. Q fever is a worldwide zoonosis caused by an obligate intracellular bacterium, Coxiella burnetii with only anecdotal reports of human-to-human transmission. The epidemiology of human infections always reflects the circulation of C. burnetiid in animal reservoirs. Q fever occurs as sporadic cases, usually after...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d255848a-e365-59ab-b491-7eab55f4b4d0
- DOI
- 10.22541/au.164864451.10182403/v1
