Objectives Employees in non-healthcare occupations may be in several ways exposed to
infectious agents. Improved knowledge about the risks is needed to identify opportunities to …

Coxiella burnetii is an obligate intracellular bacterium which, in humans, causes the disease
Q fever. Although Q fever is most often a mild, self-limiting respiratory disease, it can cause a …

Materials and Methods: Blood samples were collected from 160 apparently healthy farm
animals and 120 patients from three hospitals of the Assiut Governorate throughout …

Q fever is caused by the obligate intracellular bacterium, Coxiella burnetii, a designated
potential agent of bioterrorism because of its route of transmission, resistance to …

Most zoonoses are occupational diseases. Q fever, brucellosis and tularemia are major
zoonotic diseases for butchers and slaughterhouse workers. However, little information is …

Rickettsial infections and Q fever are a common cause of acute febrile illness globally. Data
on the role of climate and altitude on the prevalence of these infections in lacking from …

Q fever is a common zoonotic disease with worldwide distribution. The causative agent of Q
fever is Coxiella burnetii, a gram-negative and polymorphic rod bacterium. Sheep and goats …

Abattoir workers may contract Q fever by inhalation of Coxiella burnetii bacteria in aerosols
generated by slaughtering livestock, or in contaminated dust. We estimated the …

Human lice have always been a major public health concern due to their vector capacity for
louse-borne infectious diseases, trench fever, louse-borne relapsing fever, and epidemic …

Q-fever is a zoonotic infectious disease caused by the gram-negative, intracellular, spore-
forming bacterium Coxiella burnetii. Infected ruminants (cattle, sheep, and goats) are the …