Seroprevalence of Antibodies Among Ruminants and Occupationally Exposed People in Thailand, 2012-2013.

AbstractLittle is known about the burden of Q fever in Thailand. We conducted a serological study to describe the prevalence of anti- antibodies among ruminants and occupationally exposed persons in response to the report of the first two Q fever endocarditis patients in Thailand in 2012. We randomly selected ruminant sera from brucellosis surveillance and examined sera of 661 occupationally exposed subjects from two provinces of Thailand: Chiangmai and Nakornratchasima.