Q Fever Endocarditis and a New Genotype of Coxiella burnetii, Greece

Ioulia Karageorgou (1) , Nektarios Kogerakis (2) , Stavroula Labropoulou (1) , Sophia Hatzianastasiou (2) , Andreas Mentis (1) , George Stavridis (2) , Emmanouil Angelakis (1, 3)

1 Institut Pasteur Hellénique
2 OCSC - Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center [Athens]
3 AMU - Aix Marseille Université

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.

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

Ioulia Karageorgou, Nektarios Kogerakis, Stavroula Labropoulou, Sophia Hatzianastasiou, Andreas Mentis, et al.. Q Fever Endocarditis and a New Genotype of Coxiella burnetii, Greece. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2020, 26 (10), pp.2527-2529. ⟨10.3201/eid2610.191616⟩. ⟨hal-03164932⟩