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Serological evidence of Coxiella burnetii infection in cattle and farm workers: is Q fever an underreported zoonotic disease in Ecuador?

Gustavo Echeverría1 Instituto de Investigación en Salud Publica y Zoonosis (CIZ), Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador;2 Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Programa de Doctorado, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Armando Reyna-Bello3 Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida y la Agricultura, Carrera de Ingeniería en Biotecnología, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, Santo Domingo, Ecuador
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Elizabeth Minda-Aluisa1 Instituto de Investigación en Salud Publica y Zoonosis (CIZ), Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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Maritza Celi-Erazo1 Instituto de Investigación en Salud Publica y Zoonosis (CIZ), Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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Lisbeth Olmedo1 Instituto de Investigación en Salud Publica y Zoonosis (CIZ), Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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Herakles A García4 Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Miguel Angel Garcia-Bereguiain5 One Health Research Group. Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Las Américas (UDLA), Quito, Ecuador;6 School of Biological Sciences and Engineering, Yachay Tech, Urcuquí, Ecuador;7 Laboratorio para Investigaciones Biomedicas. Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador
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Jacobus H de Waard5 One Health Research Group. Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Las Américas (UDLA), Quito, Ecuador;8 Instituto de Biomedicina Dr. Jacinto Convit, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, VenezuelaCorrespondence[email protected]
& On behalf of the UNU/BIOLAC network for infectious cattle diseases show all
Pages 701-706 | Published online: 09 Apr 2019

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