Unique clone of coxiella burnetii causing severe Q fever, French Guiana

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1102-1104

  Mahamat, Aba ^a,b   Edouard, Sophie ^c   Demar, Magalie ^a,b   Abboud, Philippe ^a,b   Patrice, Jean Yves ^c   Scola, Bernard ^c   la Okandze, Antoine ^a   Djossou, Félix ^a,b   Raoult, Didier ^c  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE CAYENNE   (French Guiana)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; COXIELLA BURNETII; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ENDOCARDITIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; FRENCH GUIANA; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; Q FEVER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS;

BACTERIA; CAYENNE; CLONE; COXIELLA BURNETII; FRENCH GUIANA; GENOTYPING; MULTISPACER SEQUENCE TYPING; Q FEVER;

COXIELLA BURNETII; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FRENCH GUIANA; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; Q FEVER;

EID: 84879185567     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1907.130044     Document Type: Article

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