Risk of chronic Q fever in patients with cardiac valvulopathy, seven years after a large epidemic in the Netherlands

• Marit M. A. de Lange ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: marit.de.lange@rivm.nl

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1347-120X

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• Arko Scheepmaker,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Bernhoven Hospital, Uden, the Netherlands

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• Wim van der Hoek,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

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• Monique Leclercq,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Bernhoven Hospital, Uden, the Netherlands

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• Peter M. Schneeberger

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Jeroen Bosch Hospital, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands

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