Q Fever in South-West Scotland

A SEROLOGICAL SURVEY OF DAIRY CATTLE IN VICTORIA FOR ANTIBODY TO COXIELLA BURNETII

“…The results are comparable with those of Grist (1956), who recorded an incidence of 4/503 (0.8%) dairy cattle in Scotland with antibody. Surveys in Australia have revealed serum agglutinins in 13/879 (1.48%) dairy cattle in Queensland (Derrick et a1 1942) but, in a later study of 760 dairy and beef cattle in New South Wales (Forbes et nl 1954), only one animal showed a positive reaction to the CF test at a screening dilution of 1 in 16.…”

Epidemiology of Q Fever in Great Britain

“…BRITAIN AND MAINTENANCE OF THE ORGANISM Cattle R. bi(rneti has been isolated on numerous occasions from the pooled milk of herds of cattle kept in many parts of England, Wales, and Scotland (Marmion and Stoker, 1950;Slavin, 1952;Marmion et al, 1953;Evans, 1956;Grist, 1956). The survey by Slavin was the most comprehensive, and covered 3,374 herds, of which 6.9% in England, 2% in Wales, and 0.8°' in Scotland were infected as judged by the isolation of the rickettsia from the herd milk.…”

“…Further south in Wales it was found that 2.7% of nearly 2,000 sera from sheep in 13 sanitary districts had Q fever antibody (Evans, 1956). Grist (1956) found a few positives among sheep coming to the Glasgow abattoir.…”

“…infection has yet been obtained in Scotland in spite of finding infected cattle in Dumfries, Clydebank, and Aberdeen (Grist, 1956;Slavin, 1952).…”