1. Coxiella burnetii in Rodents on Heixiazi Island at the Sino-Russian Border
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Wang Jing, Guo Tianyu, Hu Manxia, Hou Yong, Wang Shasha, Fu Yingqun, Li Ming, Xu Baoliang, Yang Yu, Lijuan Liu, Jiang Chao, and Sun Xiaohong
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DNA, Bacterial ,Male ,Rodent ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Rodentia ,Q fever ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Russia ,law.invention ,Genetic Heterogeneity ,Risk Factors ,Phylogenetics ,law ,Virology ,biology.animal ,medicine ,Animals ,Amino Acid Sequence ,Phylogeny ,Polymerase chain reaction ,Islands ,Base Sequence ,biology ,Phylogenetic tree ,Genetic heterogeneity ,Incidence ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,Body Weight ,Articles ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,Coxiella burnetii ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Rats ,Logistic Models ,Infectious Diseases ,Liver ,bacteria ,Female ,Parasitology ,Seasons ,Q Fever - Abstract
This work is a molecular epidemiologic study to detect the incidence of Coxiella burnetii in rodents on Heixiazi Island at the Sino-Russian border of Heilongjiang Province. Liver tissues were extracted and processed to test the incidence of C. burnetii infection using polymerase chain reaction analysis. In total, 18% (66 of 370) of rodents tested positive for infection. The results of logistic regression analysis indicated that infection with C. burnetii was associated significantly with weight and month of capture, and infection was found in all rodent species that were observed; there was no significant difference of sex on the infection of C. burnetii. Though phylogenetic analysis disclosed heterogeneity in the nucleotide sequences isolated from the island rodents, the majority of observed strains were among the most common strains found worldwide. This is the first report on the incidence of C. burnetii in rodents on Heixiazi Island at the Sino-Russian border.
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- 2013
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