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

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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 19, Issue 7, Pages 1102-1104

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CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL
DOI: 10.3201/eid1907.130044

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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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