Journal article
Review of 20 years of human acute Q fever notifications in Victoria, 1994–2013
KA Bond, L Franklin, B Sutton, MA Stevenson, SM Firestone
Australian Veterinary Journal | WILEY | Published : 2018
DOI: 10.1111/avj.12704
Abstract
Objective: To describe the epidemiological and clinical features of acute Q fever in Victoria from 1994 to 2013. Design: Retrospective case series and spatiotemporal analyses of human notification data. Methods: Records for all confirmed cases of Q fever in Victoria notified between 1994 and 2013 were reviewed. Clinical and epidemiological features of the cases were described and spatiotemporal analysis undertaken for all cases potentially acquired within Victoria. Results: A total of 659 confirmed acute Q fever cases were notified over the study period. Cases decreased at a rate of 4.2% per annum (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.9, 7.4%). Notification rates decreased among abattoir workers ..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
The authors declare no conflict of interest for the work presented here. Components of these analyses were supported by a Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) grant, number VR0277, on its Peak Computing Facility at the University of Melbourne, an initiative of the Victorian Government, Australia. Simon Firestone is supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (project no. DE160100477).