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Volume 7, Number 3—June 2001
Research

Goat-Associated Q Fever: A New Disease in Newfoundland

Todd F. Hatchette*, Robert C. Hudson†, Walter F. Schlech*, Nancy A. Campbell*, Jill E. Hatchette*, Sam Ratnam‡, Didier Raoult§, Catherine Donovan‡, and Thomas J. Marrie¶Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; †Newfoundland Department of Forest Resources and Agrifoods, Clarenville, Newfoundland, Canada; ‡Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada; §Unite des Rickettsies, Marseille, France; ¶University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Figure 1

Map of the Newfoundland goat cooperative showing the farms (2-9) in relationship to the surrounding communities (A-D, the area from which the community cohort was derived). (Note: farm 1 is not directly involved with the cooperative.)

Figure 1. . Map of the Newfoundland goat cooperative showing the farms (2-9) in relationship to the surrounding communities (A-D, the area from which the community cohort was derived). (Note: farm 1 is not directly involved with the cooperative.)

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