title: Animals with Coxiella burnetii infection demonstrate a Western immunoblot profile of chronic Q fever in humans.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, Dalhousie University, and Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Marrie
authors.forename: L
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authors.lastname: Yates