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Molecular detection of Coxiella burnetii in small ruminants and genotyping of specimens collected from goats in Poland.
BMC veterinary research - 28 Oct 2021
Jodełko Agnieszka, Szymańska-Czerwińska Monika, Rola Jolanta Grażyna, Niemczuk Krzysztof
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Coxiella burnetii is the etiological agent of Q fever, a zoonosis affecting many animal species including sheep and goats. The aims of this study were to evaluate the shedding of Coxiella burnetii in small ruminant herds and to identify the pathogen's genotypes and sequence types (STs) using multiple-locus variable number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) and multispacer sequence typing (MST) methods....
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