The epidemic of Q fever in 2018 to 2019 in Zhuhai city of China determined by metagenomic next-generation sequencing.

• Main Authors: Mingxing Huang (Author), Jinmin Ma (Author), Jun Jiao (Author), Chunna Li (Author), Luan Chen (Author), Zhongyi Zhu (Author), Feng Ruan (Author), Li Xing (Author), Xinchun Zheng (Author), Mengjiao Fu (Author), Binyin Ma (Author), Chongjie Gan (Author), Yuanchen Mao (Author), Chongnan Zhang (Author), Ping Sun (Author), Xi Liu (Author), Ziliang Lin (Author), Lu Chen (Author), Zhiyu Lu (Author), Dongsheng Zhou (Author), Bohai Wen (Author), Weijun Chen (Author), Xiaolu Xiong (Author), Jinyu Xia (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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Q fever is a worldwide zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii (Cb). From January 2018 to November 2019, plasma samples from 2,382 patients with acute fever of unknown cause at a hospital in Zhuhai city of China were tested using metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS). Of those tested, 138 patie...