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Dose-Response Model of Coxiella burnetii (Q Fever).
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20723147     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Q fever is a zoonotic disease caused by the intracellular gram-negative bacterium Coxiella burnetii (C. burnetii), which only multiplies within the phagolysosomal vacuoles. Q fever may manifest as acute or chronic disease. The acute form is generally not fatal and manifestes as self-controlled febrile illness. Chronic Q fever is usually characterized by endocarditis. Many animal models, including humans, have been studied for Q fever infection through various exposure routes. The studies considered different endpoints including death for animal models and clinical signs for human infection. In this article, animal experimental data available in the open literature were fit to suitable dose-response models using maximum likelihood estimation. Research results for tests of severe combined immunodeficient mice inoculated intraperitoneally (i.p.) with C. burnetii were best estimated with the Beta-Poisson dose-response model. Similar inoculation (i.p.) trial outcomes conducted on C57BL/6J mice were best fit by an exponential model, whereas those tests run on C57BL/10ScN mice were optimally represented by a Beta-Poisson dose-response model.
Authors:
Sushil B Tamrakar; Anne Haluska; Charles N Haas; Timothy A Bartrand
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2010-08-17
Journal Detail:
Title:  Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis     Volume:  31     ISSN:  1539-6924     ISO Abbreviation:  Risk Anal.     Publication Date:  2011 Jan 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-01-04     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8109978     Medline TA:  Risk Anal     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  120-8     Citation Subset:  IM    
Copyright Information:
© 2010 Society for Risk Analysis.
Affiliation:
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Department of Civil and Environmental, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA.
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