Tarasevich I V
WHO Collaborating Centre for Rickettsial Reference and Research, Gamaleya Institute for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, USSR.
Zentralbl Bakteriol Mikrobiol Hyg A. 1987 Nov;267(1):1-6.
A review of the epidemiology and nonspecific prophylaxis of Q fever in the USSR during 1980-1985 is presented. Attention is paid of the source to infection, the seroprevalence of antibodies to Coxiella burnetii in man and livestock and the possibilities of prophylaxis against Q fever under conditions of mandatory registration of this disease.