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SUBMITTER: Mioni MSR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7168634 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) 20191228 1
<i>Coxiella burnetii</i>, the zoonotic agent of Q fever, has a worldwide distribution. Despite the vast information about the circulating genotypes in Europe and North America, there is a lack of data regarding <i>C. burnetii</i> strains in South America. Here, we show the presence of novel multispacer sequence typing (MST) genotypes of <i>C. burnetii</i> in two clusters detected in Brazil and Argentina that seem to be distant in parenthood. Argentinian strains isolated from a tick belongs to a ...[more]