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A review of Q fever in Australia 1991-1994
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There is a need to increase awareness of this disease and its prevention and an extension program in rural communities and provision of vaccine to all abattoir workers would appear to be sensible public health approaches.About:
This article is published in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health.The article was published on 1977-12-01. It has received 82 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Q fever.read more
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Is Q Fever an emerging or re-emerging zoonosis?
TL;DR: The state of the knowledge on the bacteriology and clinical manifestations of Q fever as well as its diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment and prevention are summarized in order to understand what factors are responsible for its emergence or re-emergence.
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Ticks of Australia. The species that infest domestic animals and humans.
Stephen C. Barker,Alan R. Walker +1 more
TL;DR: The present book has identification guides and accounts of the biology and diseases associated with the 16 species of ticks that may feed on domestic animals and humans in Australia.
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Australia's national Q fever vaccination program.
TL;DR: A nationally funded Q fever vaccination program was introduced in Australia in 2002 and the evaluation of this unique program included measures of program uptake, safety, and notification and hospitalisation rates for Q fever pre- and post-program implementation as discussed by the authors.
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Coxiella burnetii and milk pasteurization: an early application of the precautionary principle?
Olivier Cerf,R. Condron +1 more
TL;DR: The estimation of the efficiency of pasteurization time/temperature combinations as required in regulations for food safety is discussed and the designation of C. burnetii as a foodborne pathogen is challenged.
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A review of the evidence for potential impacts of black rats (Rattus rattus) on wildlife and humans in Australia
TL;DR: A significant gap is found in the authors' understanding of the ecology of black rats and the ecological role that it plays in Australia, despite its role as a source of a diverse range of diseases affecting humans and wildlife and its actions as a predator and competitor of native wildlife in Australia and elsewhere.
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Air-borne transmission of Q fever: the role of parturition in the generation of infective aerosols.
TL;DR: Q fever has become a disease of world-wide importance, and the considerable effort expended in attempts to define the natural history of this disease has been highly productive, especially during the last decade.
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Vaccine prophylaxis of abattoir-associated Q fever: eight years' experience in Australian abattoirs.
B. P. Marmion,R. A. Ormsbee,M. Kyrkou,J. Wright,D. A. Worswick,A. A. Izzo,Adrian Esterman,B. Feery,R. A. Shapiro +8 more
TL;DR: The Q fever vaccine, unlike other killed rickettsial vaccines, has the property of stimulating long-lasting T lymphocyte memory and this may account for its unusual protective efficacy as a killed vaccine.
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Vaccine prophylaxis of Q fever. A follow-up study of the efficacy of Q-Vax (CSL) 1985-1990.
TL;DR: To examine the efficacy of various batches of a formalin‐inactivated whole cell Coxiella burnetii vaccine (Henzerling strain, Phase 1 [Q‐Vax, CSL]) in the prevention of Q fever among abattoir workers.
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Q fever - a review.
TL;DR: Q or "query" fever is a zoonosis caused by the organism Coxiella burnetii, and cattle, sheep and goats are the most common reservoirs of this organism.