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Epizootiology of Q-fever of ruminants and wild mammals and differentiating molecular pathogenesis of Coxiella burnetii in humans and animals
Project
Project code: FLI-IBIZ-08-HV-0006
Contract period: 01.08.2007
- 30.07.2013
Purpose of research: Applied research
Hilbert A, Reith P, Brockmann SO, Tyczka J, Fischer SF, Piechotowski I, Wagner-Wiening C, Winter CH, Bendak J, Meier C, Spengler D, Miller T, Kleine-Albers C, Renner C, Koepsel U, Hensler E, Henning K, Fröhlich A, Conraths FJ, Kramer M (2009) Epidemiological enquiries in two Q fever outbreaks in a community of Baden-Württemberg during 2008 and 2009. Berl Munch Tierarztl Wochenschr 124(7-8):295-302. Hilbert A, Schmoock G, Lenzko H, Moog U, Diller R, Fröhlich A, Hoffmann L, Horner S, Elschner M, Tomaso H, Henning K, Neubauer H, Sprague LD (2012) Prevalence of Coxiella burnetii in clinically healthy German sheep flocks. BMC Res Notes 5:152. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-5-152. Boden K, Brueckmann A, Wagner-Wiening C, Hermann B, Henning K, Junghanss T, Seidel T, Baier M, Straube E, Theegarten D (2012) Maternofetal consequences of Coxiella burnetii infection in pregnancy: a case series of two outbreaks. BMC Infect Dis. 2012 Dec 19;12:359. doi: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-359. Frangoulidis D, Splettstoesser WD, Landt O, Dehnhardt J, Henning K, Hilbert A, Bauer T, Antwerpen M, Meyer H, Walter MC, Knobloch JK (2013) Microevolution of the chromosomal region of acute disease antigen A (adaA) in the query (Q) fever agent Coxiella burnetii. PLoS One 8(1):e53440. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053440. Epub 2013 Jan 3. PubMed PMID: 23301072 Marenzoni ML, Stefanetti V, Papa P, Casagrande Proietti P, Bietta A, Coletti M, Passamonti F, Henning K (2013) Is the horse a reservoir or an indicator of Coxiella burnetii infection? Systematic review and biomolecular investigation. Vet Microbiol 167(3-4):662-9. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2013.09.027. Epub 2013 Oct 1. Review. PubMed PMID: 24144862. Hilbert A, Blaha I, Fröhlich A, Hensler E, Reith P, Henning K, Conraths FJ, Miller T (2014) Aspects seroepidemiological studies on Q fever in unvaccinated dairy cattle herds. Berl Munch Tierarztl Wochenschr 127(3-4):149-57. PubMed PMID: 24693661. Franke J, Fritzsch J, Tomaso H, Straube E, Dorn W, Hildebrandt A (2010) Coexistence of pathogens in host-seeking and feeding ticks within a single natural habitat in Central Germany. Appl Environ Microbiol 76(20):6829-36. doi:10.1128/AEM.01630-10. PMCID: PMC2953012. Georgiev M, Afonso A, Neubauer H, Needham H, Thiery R, Rodolakis A, Roest H, Stark K, Stegeman J, Vellema P, van der Hoek W, More S (2013) Q fever in humans and farm animals in four European countries, 1982 to 2010. Euro Surveill 18(8). pii: 20407. Review. PubMed PMID: 23449232. Hackert VH, van der Hoek W, Dukers-Muijrers N, de Bruin A, Al Dahouk S, Neubauer H, Bruggeman CA, Hoebe CJ (2012) Q fever: single-point source outbreak with high attack rates and massive numbers of undetected infections across an entire region. Clin Infect Dis 55(12):1591-9. doi: 10.1093/cid/cis734. Hildebrandt A, Straube E, Neubauer H, Schmoock G (2011) Coxiella burnetii and coinfections in Ixodes ricinus ticks in Central Germany. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 11(8):1205-7. doi: 10.1089/vbz.2010.0180. Hildebrandt A, Franke J, Schmoock G, Pauliks K, Krämer A, Straube E (2011) Diversity and coexistence of tick-borne pathogens in central Germany. J Med Entomol 48(3):651-5. PubMed PMID: 21661327. Marenzoni ML, Stefanetti V, Papa P, Casagrande Proietti P, Bietta A, Coletti M, Passamonti F, Henning K (2013) Is the horse a reservoir or an indicator of Coxiella burnetii infection? Systematic review and biomolecular investigation. Vet Microbiol 167(3-4):662-9. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2013.09.027. Schilling AK, Hotzel H, Methner U, Sprague LD, Schmoock G, El-Adawy H, Ehricht R, Wöhr AC, Erhard M, Geue L (2012) Zoonotic agents in small ruminants kept on city farms in southern Germany. Appl Environ Microbiol 78(11):3785-93. doi:10.1128/AEM.07802-11. Schmoock G, Ehricht R, Sprague LD (2014) DNA microarray-based detection of Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent of Q fever. Acta Vet Scand 56:27. doi:10.1186/1751-0147-56-27. Schmidt S, Essbauer SS, Mayer-Scholl A, Poppert S, Schmidt-Chanasit J, Klempa B, Henning K, Schares G, Groschup MH, Spitzenberger F, Richter D, Heckel G, Ulrich RG (2014) Multiple infections of rodents with zoonotic pathogens in Austria. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 14(7):467-75. doi: 10.1089/vbz.2013.1504. Frangoulidis D, Walter MC, Antwerpen M, Zimmermann P, Janowetz B, Alex M, Böttcher J, Henning K, Hilbert A, Ganter M, Runge M, Münsterkötter M, Splettstoesser WD, Hanczaruk M. (2014) Molecular analysis of Coxiella burnetii in Germany reveals evolution of unique clonal clusters. Int J Med Microbiol 304(7):868-76. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2014.06.011.
Section overview
Subjects
- Animal health
Framework programme
Funding programme
Excutive institution
FLI - Institute for Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses (FLI-IBIZ)
