{"id":8911,"date":"2017-12-17T17:40:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T06:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/veterinarycareers.com.au\/dev\/?p=8911"},"modified":"2019-02-06T00:29:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T13:29:37","slug":"q-fever-research-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veterinarycareers.com.au\/dev\/q-fever-research-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Q Fever Research News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Q Fever is a disease of humans and livestock caused by Coxiella burnetii bacterial infection.<\/p>\n

A new research project will develop a better understanding of factors influencing the risk of Q Fever spread within and between Australian ruminant livestock enterprises, and develop national guidelines for an emergency response plan to be used in the event of Q Fever outbreak in humans.<\/p>\n

Coxiella burnetii is extremely resistant to environmental conditions and one of the most contagious organisms known to man. A single organism is sufficient to cause infection.<\/p>\n

The most common route of infection is inhalation of contaminated dust, contact with contaminated milk, meat and wool, and close contact with infected animals.<\/p>\n

A Q Fever outbreak similar to that which occurred in The Netherlands in 2007-2010 would be catastrophic in\u00a0terms of human health and for Australia\u2019s dairy goat industry.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Taking the \u2018Q\u2019 (query) out of Q Fever: developing a better understanding of the drivers of Q Fever spread in farmed ruminants<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>project will improve understanding of Q Fever reservoirs, amplification and transmission pathways to help direct biosecurity resources more efficiently. In turn, this will reduce the burden of an extremely debilitating disease in rural communities.<\/p>\n

This project will also provide knowledge that can be used to develop policies that will limit the likelihood of a large and prolonged Q Fever outbreak in Australia. This will help to maintain Australia\u2019s position as an exporter of premium agricultural produce.<\/p>\n

Project funding<\/strong><\/p>\n

This project is supported by funding from the Australian Government Department of Agriculture and Water Resources as part of its Rural R&D for Profit program.<\/p>\n

Under the Rural R&D for Profit program, AgriFutures Australia received:<\/p>\n

Grant funding: $514,500<\/p>\n

Cash contributions: $735,000<\/p>\n

In-kind contributions: $367,800<\/p>\n

Total project resources: $1,617,300<\/p>\n

Project partners<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • University of Melbourne<\/li>\n
  • Meredith Dairy<\/li>\n
  • University of Queensland<\/li>\n
  • Australian Rickettsial Research Laboratory<\/li>\n
  • University of Sydney<\/li>\n
  • University of Adelaide<\/li>\n
  • Charles Sturt University<\/li>\n
  • Goat Veterinary Consultancies (Goatvetoz)<\/li>\n
  • Victorian Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources (DEDJTR)<\/li>\n
  • Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (QDAF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u00a0Q Fever is a disease of humans and livestock caused by Coxiella burnetii bacterial infection. A new research project will develop a better understanding of factors influencing the risk of Q Fever spread within and between Australian ruminant livestock enterprises, and develop national guidelines for an emergency response plan to be used in the event […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veterinarycareers.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veterinarycareers.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veterinarycareers.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veterinarycareers.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veterinarycareers.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8911"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/veterinarycareers.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9010,"href":"https:\/\/veterinarycareers.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911\/revisions\/9010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veterinarycareers.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veterinarycareers.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veterinarycareers.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veterinarycareers.com.au\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}