Genetic Diversity of Coxiella burnetii in Iran by Multi-Spacer Sequence Typing

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Mobarez, Ashraf Mohabati
Baseri, Neda
Khalili, Mohammad
Mostafavi, Ehsan
Stenos, John
Esmaeili, Saber
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2022
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Coxiella burnetii, the zoonotic agent of Q fever, has a worldwide distribution including Iran. However, no information regarding the circulating genotype of this infection has been reported in Iran. This study aimed to evaluate the genetic diversity of C. burnetii in Iran using the multi-spacer sequence typing (MST) method. First, 14 positive C. burnetii samples (collected from four sheep, three goats, and seven cattle) were confirmed using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) targeting the IS1111 gene. Then, ten spacers (Cox 2, 5, 18, 20, 22, 37, 51, 56, 57, and 61) were amplified using PCR for future MST analysis. The in-silico MST genotyping analysis of domestic ruminant samples revealed two new alleles (Cox5.11 and Cox56.15) in Cox5 and Cox56 loci that led to the emergence of four novel MST genotypes (MST62, 63, 64, and 65) and one MST genotype that has been previously described (MST61). This study showed the circulation of five MST C. burnetii genotypes among Iranian domestic ruminants. Understanding the C. burnetii genotypic profiles is critical in determining and preventing Q fever outbreaks.

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Pathogens

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11

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10

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© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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Bacteriology

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Life Sciences & Biomedicine

Microbiology

Coxiella burnetii

Q fever

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Mobarez, AM; Baseri, N; Khalili, M; Mostafavi, E; Stenos, J; Esmaeili, S, Genetic Diversity of Coxiella burnetii in Iran by Multi-Spacer Sequence Typing, Pathogens, 2022, 11 (10), pp. 1175

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