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    Serological evidence of coxielosis in sheep farms of Namibia
    (2018) Bishi, Alec S.; Khaiseb, S.; Shaanika, A.; Nambinga, E.K.N.; Kandiwa, Erick; Mushonga, Borden; Samkange, Alaster; Tjipura, G.
    (Query fever) is a zoonotic disease caused by Coxiella burnetii infection, which is an obligate gram negative intracellular bacterium (Lai et al., 2014). Its preferred target host cells are tissues, macrophages and circulating monocytes. Domestic ruminants, a wide variety of domestic and wild animal species are implicated as reservoirs for most human infections (Matthewman et al., 1997; Sellens et al., 2016). Transmission to humans and other animals commonly occurs by contact with animal after births or by pathogen-contaminated dust or aerosols, via tick bites or contaminated milk ingestion (Anderson et al., 2015; Njeru et al., 2016). Coxiellosis in domestic ruminants causes abortions and stillbirths, resulting in significant economic losses (Anderson et al., 2015; Joulie et al., 2015). In the some studies, sero-prevalence figures in cattle (7.4-51.1%), sheep (6.7-20.0%), camels (20.0-46.0%) and goats (20.0-46.0%) revealed variation based on eco-regions and year of study (Njeru et al., 2016). The primary objective of this study was to establish whether or not coxiellosis present in the study area.