TY - JOUR AU - Brouqui, Philippe AU - Badiaga, Sékéné AU - Raoult, Didier T1 - Q Fever Outbreak in Homeless Shelter T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2004 VL - 10 IS - 7 SP - 1297 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Urban outbreaks of Q fever have occurred after exposure to slaughterhouses or parturient cats. We detected an outbreak of Q fever in a homeless shelter in Marseilles. Investigations showed that the main factors exposing persons to Coxiella burnetii were an abandoned slaughterhouse used for an annual Muslim sheep feast and wind. KW - homeless KW - Q fever KW - Coxiella burnetii KW - slaughterhouse KW - wind KW - dispatch KW - France DO - 10.3201/eid1007.031020 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/7/03-1020_article ER - End of Reference