Seroprevalence of Q fever among high-risk occupations in the Ilam province, the west of Iran

Ehsan Mostafavi; Leila Molaeipoor; Saber Esmaeili; Ahmad Ghasemi; Maedeh Kamalizad; Manijeh Yousefi Behzadi; Razi Naserifar; Mehdi Rohani; Abdolrazagh Hashemi Shahraki

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0211781

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Seroprevalence of Q fever among high-risk occupations in the Ilam province, the west of Iran

Ehsan Mostafavi ,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mostafaviehsan@gmail.com.

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, National Reference laboratory for diagnosis and research on Plague, Tularemia and Q fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar Ahang, Hamadan, Iran
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Leila Molaeipoor,

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, National Reference laboratory for diagnosis and research on Plague, Tularemia and Q fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar Ahang, Hamadan, Iran
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Saber Esmaeili,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, National Reference laboratory for diagnosis and research on Plague, Tularemia and Q fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar Ahang, Hamadan, Iran, Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1920-1737

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Ahmad Ghasemi,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, National Reference laboratory for diagnosis and research on Plague, Tularemia and Q fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar Ahang, Hamadan, Iran, Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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Maedeh Kamalizad,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, National Reference laboratory for diagnosis and research on Plague, Tularemia and Q fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar Ahang, Hamadan, Iran
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Manijeh Yousefi Behzadi,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, National Reference laboratory for diagnosis and research on Plague, Tularemia and Q fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar Ahang, Hamadan, Iran
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Razi Naserifar,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Health, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran
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Mehdi Rohani,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Reference laboratory for diagnosis and research on Plague, Tularemia and Q fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar Ahang, Hamadan, Iran, Department of Microbiology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran
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Abdolrazagh Hashemi Shahraki

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, National Reference laboratory for diagnosis and research on Plague, Tularemia and Q fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar Ahang, Hamadan, Iran
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Seroprevalence of Q fever among high-risk occupations in the Ilam province, the west of Iran

Ehsan Mostafavi,
Leila Molaeipoor,
Saber Esmaeili,
Ahmad Ghasemi,
Maedeh Kamalizad,
Manijeh Yousefi Behzadi,
Razi Naserifar,
Mehdi Rohani,
Abdolrazagh Hashemi Shahraki

Published: February 19, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211781

About the Authors

Ehsan Mostafavi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mostafaviehsan@gmail.com.

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran, National Reference laboratory for diagnosis and research on Plague, Tularemia and Q fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar Ahang, Hamadan, Iran

Leila Molaeipoor

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Saber Esmaeili

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1920-1737

Ahmad Ghasemi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Maedeh Kamalizad

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Manijeh Yousefi Behzadi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Razi Naserifar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Health, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran

Mehdi Rohani

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Reference laboratory for diagnosis and research on Plague, Tularemia and Q fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar Ahang, Hamadan, Iran, Department of Microbiology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Abdolrazagh Hashemi Shahraki

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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