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SUBMITTER: Di Domenico M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4208599 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) 20141001 10
Genotyping of bacteria is critical for diagnosis, treatment, and epidemiological surveillance. Coxiella burnetii, the etiological agent of Q fever, has been recognized to have a potential for bioterrorism purposes. Because few serosurveys have been conducted in Italy, there is still limited information about the distribution of this pathogen in natural conditions. In this paper, we describe the genotyping of C. burnetii strains by multispacer sequence typing (MST) detected in cattle and goat far ...[more]