Volume 17, Number 12—December 2011
Dispatch
Proximity to Goat Farms and Coxiella burnetii Seroprevalence among Pregnant Women
Table 1
Antibodies to Coxiella burnetii in pregnant women in 10 municipalities in Noord-Brabant Province, the Netherlands, June 2007–May 2009
Municipality | Total population | No. pregnant women tested | Serologic profile, no. (%) women |
|
---|---|---|---|---|
IgG II titer >64 | Possible recent infection* | |||
Lith | 6,667 | 42 | 9 (21.4) | 4 (9.5) |
Oss | 77,097 | 702 | 57 (8.1) | 22 (3.1) |
Maasdonk | 11,260 | 38 | 5 (13.2) | 0 |
Bernheze | 29,615 | 291 | 30 (10.3) | 15 (5.2) |
Landerd | 14,805 | 72 | 6 (8.3) | 4 (5.6) |
Uden | 40,360 | 380 | 32 (8.4) | 8 (2.1) |
Veghel | 37,125 | 355 | 37 (10.4) | 6 (1.7) |
Boekel | 9,692 | 84 | 5 (6.0) | 0 |
Schijndel | 22,889 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
Sint-Oedenrode | 17,427 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 266,937 | 2,004 | 181 (9.0) | 59 (2.9) |
*IgM titer to phase II antigen >64 combined with either an IgG II or IgM I titer >64.