PMID- 33432436
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210513
LR  - 20210513
IS  - 1573-7438 (Electronic)
IS  - 0049-4747 (Linking)
VI  - 53
IP  - 1
DP  - 2021 Jan 11
TI  - Seroprevalence of Coxiella burnetii in a dairy cattle herd from the Al Ain 
      region, United Arab Emirates.
PG  - 112
LID - 10.1007/s11250-021-02570-0 [doi]
AB  - The present study assessed the serostatus of Coxiella burnetii in a dairy cattle 
      herd from the Al Ain region, UAE. In addition, the study evaluated the 
      relationship between C. burnetii seropositivity and history of abortion and 
      cattle age. Blood/sera from 759 cattle were tested by ELISA, and the data 
      analyzed by the Pearson Chi-square test (PCST), odds ratios, and logistic 
      regression. Of the 759 study cattle, 36.5% (277/759) were seropositive while 
      63.5% (482/759) were seronegative for C. burnetii. Additionally, 19.5% (148/759) 
      of the cattle had ever aborted while 80.5% (611/759) had not. Meanwhile, 34.3% 
      (95/277) of the C. burnetii-seropositive cattle (CBSPos) had history of abortion 
      while 65.7% (182/277) did not. By comparison, only 11.0% (53/482) of the C. 
      burnetii-seronegative (CBSNeg) cattle had history of abortion while 89.0% 
      (429/482) had never aborted. The difference in the conditional probabilities of 
      CBSPos or CBSNeg cattle that had history of abortion was statistically 
      significant (PCST; p value 0.001), as was the association between a CBSPos 
      outcome and history of abortion (p value 0.0001). Moreover, the odds of prior 
      abortion having occurred in CBSPos were 4.3 times higher than in CBSNeg cattle. 
      Similarly, the log of the odds of past abortions was positively correlated with 
      C. burnetii seropositivity and cattle age (p value < 0.001). These data 
      demonstrate apparent C. burnetii infections in cattle from the UAE in which the 
      risk of abortion appears to increase with cattle age. Molecular testing for C. 
      burnetii and comprehensive investigations of other abortigenic pathogens in the 
      study cattle herd are recommended.
FAU - Barigye, Robert
AU  - Barigye R
AD  - Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Food and Agriculture, United Arab 
      Emirates University, P. O Box 15551, Al Ain, UAE. rbarigye@uaeu.ac.ae.
FAU - Hassan, Nabeeha Abdelgaleel D
AU  - Hassan NAD
AD  - Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Food and Agriculture, United Arab 
      Emirates University, P. O Box 15551, Al Ain, UAE.
FAU - Abdalla Alfaki, Ibrahim M
AU  - Abdalla Alfaki IM
AD  - Department of Data Analytics in the Digital Era, College of Business and 
      Economics, United Arab Emirates University, P. O Box 15551, Al Ain, UAE.
FAU - Barongo, Mike B
AU  - Barongo MB
AD  - Academic Registrar Department, Makerere University, P. O Box 7062, Kampala, 
      Uganda.
FAU - Mohamed, Mohamed Elfatih H
AU  - Mohamed MEH
AD  - Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Food and Agriculture, United Arab 
      Emirates University, P. O Box 15551, Al Ain, UAE.
FAU - Mohteshamuddin, Khaja
AU  - Mohteshamuddin K
AD  - Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Food and Agriculture, United Arab 
      Emirates University, P. O Box 15551, Al Ain, UAE.
LA  - eng
GR  - G00002201/United Arab Emirates University/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210111
PL  - United States
TA  - Trop Anim Health Prod
JT  - Tropical animal health and production
JID - 1277355
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Cattle
MH  - *Cattle Diseases/epidemiology/microbiology
MH  - Coxiella burnetii/*isolation & purification
MH  - Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay/veterinary
MH  - Female
MH  - Pregnancy
MH  - *Q Fever/epidemiology/veterinary
MH  - Seroepidemiologic Studies
MH  - United Arab Emirates/epidemiology
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Abortion
OT  - Cattle
OT  - Coxiella burnetii
OT  - United Arab Emirates
EDAT- 2021/01/13 06:00
MHDA- 2021/05/14 06:00
CRDT- 2021/01/12 06:12
PHST- 2020/02/18 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/01/06 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/01/12 06:12 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/01/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/05/14 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s11250-021-02570-0 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s11250-021-02570-0 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Trop Anim Health Prod. 2021 Jan 11;53(1):112. doi: 10.1007/s11250-021-02570-0.