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Dispatch Changing Epidemiology of Q Fever in Germany, 1947-1999Wiebke Hellenbrand, Thomas Breuer, and Lyle Petersen |
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| Back to article Figure 1. Number of reported cases of Q fever in Germany, 1962-1999. *In 1993, 184 persons with Q fever were officially reported; 101 of these persons were part of the outbreak in
Oberscheid, Hesse, and were only reported
to the Robert Koch Institute and not to the federal Office of Statistics (36). However, a total of 97 symptomatic persons with serologically confirmed Q
fever were described in a report of the outbreak in Dortmund, Northrhine-Westphalia, and 43 serologically confirmed symptomatic cases were reported in
an outbreak among military recruits in Sontra, Hesse (Table
1). Thus a minimum of 94 persons with Q fever were not officially reported in 1993. (In
Northrhine-Westphalia, 34 cases were reported; thus a minimum of 97 - 34 = 63 cases were not reported. In
Hesse, 117 cases were reported, including 105
in conjunction with the Oberscheid outbreak [Table 1]; thus, a minimum of 43 - [117-105] = 31 cases were not reported from
Hesse).Sources: (36),
Robert Koch-Institute, and Federal Office of Statistics, Wiesbaden. |
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