Q-fever and delivery: a risky business?
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Introduction / objectives Since 2007, the Netherlands is facing a large ongoing Qfever outbreak with > 4000 cases of acute Q-fever reported. Q-fever is a zoonotic disease with (almost) only animal-to-human transmission. Pregnant women with Q-fever develop placentitis with highly infectious birth-products which may result in human-to-human transmission during delivery. In the absence of guidelines, a Q-fever protocol was developed and prospectively evaluated.
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