Taxonomy	Species	Chlamydophila abortus
	Category	Bacteria
	Genus	Chlamydia
	Family	Chlamydiaceae
	Order/Class	Chlamydiales
	Phylum	Chlamydiae
Human and animal disease	Human disease	Chlamydophila abortusinfection
	Predominant syndrome	Pre- and perinatal
	Occ. risk group	Animal producers
	Incubation time	1-4 weeks
	Disease in farm animals	Yes
	Disease in pets and horses	No
	Disease in wildlife	No
	Specfic animal species	Ruminants
Reservoirs	Humans	No
	Farm animals	Yes
	Pets and horses	No
	Wildlife	No
	Specific animal species	Ruminants

Transmission	Human to human	No
	Skin	No
	Tissue/blood: Arthropods	No
	Tissue/blood: Invasive actions	No
	Secreta/excreta: Air	Yes
	Secreta/excreta: Water/food/environment	Yes
	Secreta/excreta: Close animal contact	No
	Transmission info	Birthing prod.
Geographic distribution	Netherlands	Yes
	Europe	Yes
	Africa	Yes
	North America	Yes
	South America	Yes
	Australia	Yes
	Asia	Yes
	Distribution info	Worldwide
Info	Specifics
	Human ref. website URL
	Animal ref. website URL

		Value		Normalised value	Weight	Score
1	Probability of introduction into the Netherlands	100	%	1	0.418	0.42
2	Transmission in animal reservoirs	10	%	0.86	0.292	0.25
3	Economic damage, animal reservoirs	5	M€	0.3	0.337	0.1
4	Animal-human transmission	0.005	%	0	0.626	0
5	Human-human transmission	0	%	0	0.339	0
6	Morbidity	0.06		0.28	0.181	0.05
7	Mortality	0.05	%	0.53	0.643	0.34
	Total					1.16
	Normalised score					0.46

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