Coxiella burnetii infection of a steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) found in Washington state

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3428-3431

  Kersh, Gilbert J ^d   Lambourn, Dyanna M ^a   Self, Joshua S ^d   Akmajian, Adrianne M ^a   Stanton, James B ^c   Baszler, Timothy V ^c   Raverty, Stephen A ^b   Massung, Robert F ^d  

^a WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^b ANIMAL HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLEEDING; BRAIN; COXIELLA BURNETII; CYTOPLASM; EDEMA; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; FETUS; HEART; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LUNG; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOID HYPERPLASIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q FEVER; RNA SEQUENCE; SARCOCYSTIS NEURONA; SEAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMALL INTESTINE; SPLEEN; SPLENOMEGALY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TROPHOBLAST; UNITED STATES; UTERUS; VASCULARIZATION; WEIGHT;

ANIMALS; COXIELLA BURNETII; FEMALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; Q FEVER; SEA LIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WASHINGTON;

COXIELLA BURNETII; EUMETOPIAS JUBATUS; OTARIIDAE;

EID: 77956826380     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00758-10     Document Type: Article

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