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Coxiella burnetii is widespread in ticks (Ixodidae) in the Xinjiang border areas of China
2019-12-05
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background: </h4> The gram-negative Coxiella burnetii bacterium is the pathogen that causes Q fever. The bacterium is transmitted to animals via ticks and can cause infection in domestic animals, wild animals, and humans. As the provincial-level administrative region with the largest land area in China, Xinjiang has many endemic tick species; however, the distribution of C. burnetii in ticks in Xinjiang border...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 99876fa2-69b6-501c-a4df-22068223fc86
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.2.18156/v1
