Animals with Coxiella burnetii Infection Demonstrate a Western Immunoblot Profile of Chronic Q Fever in Humans

TJ Marrie; Linda Yates

doi:10.1155/1996/853518

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases (Jan 1996)

Animals with Coxiella burnetii Infection Demonstrate a Western Immunoblot Profile of Chronic Q Fever in Humans

TJ Marrie,
Linda Yates

Affiliations

TJ Marrie: Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, Dalhousie University, and Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Linda Yates: Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, Dalhousie University, and Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/1996/853518
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 45 – 48

Abstract

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Western immunoblotting was used to compare the immune response to Coxiella burnetii phase I and phase II antigens of humans with acute and chronic Q fever with that of infected cats, rabbits, cows and raccoons. The cats, rabbits, cows and raccoons had an immunoblot profile similar to that of the human with chronic Q fever.

Published in Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases

ISSN: 1180-2332 (Print)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Infectious and parasitic diseases
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/9575

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