Unique Clone of Coxiella burnetii Causing Severe Q Fever, French Guiana

Mahamat, Aba; Edouard, Sophie; Demar, Magalie; Abboud, Philippe; Patrice, Jean-Yves; La Scola, Bernard; Okandze, Antoine; Djossou, Félix; Raoult, Didier

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Unique Clone of Coxiella burnetii Causing Severe Q Fever, French Guiana

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Jul 2013
By Mahamat, Aba ; Edouard, Sophie ; Demar, Magalie ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
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Mahamat, Aba ; Edouard, Sophie ; Demar, Magalie ; Abboud, Philippe ; Patrice, Jean-Yves ; La Scola, Bernard ; Okandze, Antoine ; Djossou, Félix ; Raoult, Didier
Description:

Acute Q fever is an emergent and severe disease in French Guiana. We obtained 5 Coxiella burnetii isolates from samples of patients from Cayenne and found an epidemic clone circulating in Cayenne. This clone has caused pneumonia and endocarditis and seems to be more virulent than previously described strains.
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Bacteria Cayenne Clone Coxiella Burnetii Dispatch Endocarditis, Bacterial Female French Guiana Genes, Bacterial Genotyping Humans Male Middle Aged Multilocus Sequence Typing Multispacer Sequence Typing Phylogeny Q Fever
Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 19(7):1102-1104.
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Journal Article
Volume:

19
Issue:

7
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:41ed884ad500a1f04081c4b273c5bc32457e9562f49b0547888447a691c29237
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