Coxiella burnetii-positive PCR in febrile patients in rural and urban Africa

Emmanouil Angelakis (1) , Oleg O Mediannikov (1) , Cristina Socolovschi (1) , Nadjet Mouffok (2) , Hubert Bassene (1) , Adama Tall (3) , Hamidou Niangaly (4) , Ogobara K Doumbo (4) , Abir Znazen (5) , Mhammed Sarih (6) , Cheikh Sokhna (1) , Didier Raoult (1)

1 URMITE - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes
2 EHU - Établissement Hospitalo-Universitaire d’Oran
3 Institut Pasteur de Dakar
4 MRTC - Malaria Research and Training Center
5 Microbiology Department, Habib Bourguiba Hospital/Faculty of Medicine, South University, Sfax, Tunisia
6 Institut Pasteur du Maroc

Mots clés: Q fever; Africa; Coxiella burnetii; Genotype; Multi-spacer sequence typing

Domaines: Maladies infectieuses

Emmanouil Angelakis, Oleg O Mediannikov, Cristina Socolovschi, Nadjet Mouffok, Hubert Bassene, et al.. Coxiella burnetii-positive PCR in febrile patients in rural and urban Africa. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2014, 28, pp.107 - 110. ⟨10.1016/j.ijid.2014.05.029⟩. ⟨hal-01774657⟩