[Tests for anthropozoonoses in sera of farmers in eastern-Austria. I. Communication (author's transl)]

Abstract

Because of human disease and the evidence of antibodies in domestic- and wild animal-sera, human sera were tested for various anthropozoonoses in three districts of the so called "Seewinkel" (Eastern-Austria). Positive reactions were found for listeriosis, tularemia, leptospirosis, ornithosis, Q-fever, rickettsiae of the RMSF-group "Stamm B", mycoplasmosis, TBE-(FSME-), Sindbis-, West Nil-VIRUS. These results are indicators for the occurrence of the pathogens and are supported by the positive results already found at serological tests of domestic and wild animals.