1. Q Fever Endocarditis and a New Genotype of Coxiella burnetii, Greece
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Ioulia Karageorgou, Nektarios Kogerakis, Emmanouil Angelakis, George Stavridis, Andreas Mentis, Stavroula Labropoulou, Sophia Hatzianastasiou, Institut Pasteur Hellénique, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center [Athens] (OCSC), and Aix Marseille Université (AMU)
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Microbiology (medical) ,Aortic valve ,Epidemiology ,genotype ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,030231 tropical medicine ,lcsh:Medicine ,Q fever ,Serology ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Genotype ,Research Letter ,Medicine ,Endocarditis ,Animals ,Humans ,In patient ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,030212 general & internal medicine ,bacteria ,multispacer sequence typing ,MST ,biology ,Greece ,business.industry ,lcsh:R ,Endocarditis, Bacterial ,Coxiella burnetii ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,Virology ,3. Good health ,Q fever endocarditis ,Infectious Diseases ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,endocarditis ,Cattle ,Q Fever Endocarditis and a New Genotype of Coxiella burnetii, Greece ,business ,acute Q fever endocarditis - Abstract
International audience; Underdiagnosis of Coxiella burnetii infections in Greece is possible because of lack of awareness by physicians, and most suspected cases are in patients with no bovine contact. We found serologic evidence of C. burnetii infection throughout Greece and identified a new C. burnetii genotype in the aortic valve of a patient with Q fever endocarditis.
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- 2020
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