TY - JOUR AU - Mahamat, Aba AU - Edouard, Sophie AU - Demar, Magalie AU - Abboud, Philippe AU - Patrice, Jean-Yves AU - La Scola, Bernard AU - Okandze, Antoine AU - Djossou, FĂ©lix AU - Raoult, Didier T1 - Unique Clone of Coxiella burnetii Causing Severe Q Fever, French Guiana T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2013 VL - 19 IS - 7 SP - 1102 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - Coxiella burnetii KW - bacteria KW - Q fever KW - genotyping KW - multispacer sequence typing KW - Cayenne KW - French Guiana KW - clone DO - 10.3201/eid1907.130044 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/7/13-0044_article ER - End of Reference