Outbreak of Q fever in Lohra-Rollshausen, Germany, spring 1996

O Lyytikaïnen; T Ziese; B Schwartländer; P Matzdorff; C Kuhnhen; C Burger; W Krug; L Petersen

doi:10.2807/esm.02.02.00136-en

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Outbreak of Q fever in Lohra-Rollshausen, Germany, spring 1996
O Lyytikaïnen^1,2 , T Ziese^2,3 , B Schwartländer¹ , P Matzdorff⁴ , C Kuhnhen⁴ , C Burger⁵ , W Krug⁶ , L Petersen¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin, Germany ² European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training ³ Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Stockholm, Sweden ⁴ Gesundheitsamt Marburg-Biedenkopf, Germany ⁵ Institut für Hygiene und Infektions Krankheiten der Tiere der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany ⁶ Staatliches Veterinäramt, Marburg, Germany

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Citation style for this article: Lyytikaïnen O, Ziese T, Schwartländer B, Matzdorff P, Kuhnhen C, Burger C, Krug W, Petersen L . Outbreak of Q fever in Lohra-Rollshausen, Germany, spring 1996. Euro Surveill. 1997;2(2):pii=136. https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.02.02.00136-en

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Abstract

Q fever is an acute (and sometimes chronic) febrile illness caused by the rickettsial organism Coxiella burnetii. The commonest animal reservoirs for C. burnetiiare cattle, sheep, and goats. Infected animals shed the organisms, which resist desiccation, i