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A SEROLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF Q FEVER IN PAKISTAN

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Title: A SEROLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF Q FEVER IN PAKISTAN

Authors: Ismat Parveen Ahmed 

Journal: Journal of Pakistan Medical Association

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Publisher: Pakistan Medical Association.

Country: Pakistan

Year: 1987

Volume: 37

Issue: 5

Language: English

Categories
Q Fever (3) Medicine (22336) Pakistan (3978) Immunology (7543) Infectious Diseases (12373)

Abstract

Abstract


A Serological study of Q fever in human beings and animals of Pakistan was performed using comple­ment fixation test. Sera from 56 patients having different type of infection showed that 26.8 percent had been exposed to Q fever agent and had circulating antibodies against Coxie/la burnetii. In animals ser from 55 buffaloes, 35 cows, 60 sheep, 65 goats and 300 rodents were tested and showed a prevalence of 34.5, 10.4, 18.3, 4.6 and 1 8.0 percent respectively.
This investigation focuses on the natural infection of Q fever among rodents of semklesert areas of Sind and Baluchistan and indicates widespread Q fever infection in man, domestic animals and commensal rodents of Pakistan

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