Emerging Infectious Diseases (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,
  • Didier Raoult

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1907.130044
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 7
pp. 1102 – 1104

Abstract

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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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