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Volume 10, Number 7—July 2004
Research

Q Fever Outbreak in Industrial Setting

Hugo C. van Woerden*Comments to Author , Brendan W. Mason*, Lika K. Nehaul†, Robert Smith*, Roland L. Salmon*, Brendan Healy‡, Manoj Valappil§, Diana Westmoreland§, Sarah de Martin†, Meirion R. Evans*, Graham Lloyd¶, Marysia Hamilton-Kirkwood‡, and Nina S. Williams*
Author affiliations: *National Public Health Service for Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom; †Department of Public Health, Gwent, United Kingdom; ‡Department of Public Health, Cardiff, United Kingdom; §University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom; and; ¶Special Pathogens Reference Unit, Wiltshire, United Kingdom

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Table 4

Summary of highest phase 2 CFT results recorded for each person in the cohort in Q fever outbreak, Newport, Wales, August–September 2002a

Highest CFT AQF cases Noncases Past exposure Possible cases
<8
 4
 104
 5
 35
8
 4
 2
 3
 2
16
 12
 1
 0
 2
32
 14
 1
 0
 2
64
 16
 0
 0
 1
128
 21
 0
 0
 0
256
 17
 0
 0
 0
512
 5
 0
 0
 0
1,024
 2
 0
 0
 0
Totals (253) 95 108 8 42

aCFT, complement fixation test; AQF, acute Q fever.

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