title: Seroepidemiologic survey for Coxiella burnetii among US military personnel deployed to Southwest and Central Asia in 2005.
abstract: We used a seroepidemiologic study to estimate Q fever (Coxiella burnetii) seroprevalence, seroincidence, and risk factors for seroconversion in two deployed military populations in 2005. The first study group resided in an area with a known Q fever outbreak history (Al Asad, Iraq). Of this population, 7.2% seroconverted for an incidence rate of 10.6 seroconversions per 1,000 person-months. The second population included personnel transiting through Qatar on mid-deployment leave from southwest/central Asia. In this group, we found 2.1% prevalence with 0.92 seroconversions per 1,000 person-months. However, no significant risk factors for Q fever seroconversion were found in either population.
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland; Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland; US Naval Medical Research Unit, No. 3, Cairo, Egypt; Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, California.
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Royal
authors.forename: Mark S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Riddle
authors.forename: Emad
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mohareb
authors.forename: Marshall R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Monteville
authors.forename: Chad K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Porter
authors.forename: Dennis J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Faix
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000097:blood*; D016997:Coxiella burnetii / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007493:Iraq / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008889:Military Personnel; D011778:Q Fever / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D011780:Qatar / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D016036:Seroepidemiologic Studies
chemical_list: D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial
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