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Emerging Infect. Dis. · Jul 2013
Unique clone of Coxiella burnetii causing severe Q fever, French Guiana.
- Aba Mahamat, Sophie Edouard, Magalie Demar, Philippe Abboud, Jean-Yves Patrice, Bernard La Scola, Antoine Okandze, Félix Djossou, and Didier Raoult.
- Centre Hospitalier Andree Rosemon, Cayenne, French Guiana
- Emerging Infect. Dis. 2013 Jul 1; 19 (7): 1102-4.
AbstractAcute 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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