Coxiella burnetii is an environmentally stable intracellular bacterium responsible for severe global outbreaks of the zoonotic disease, Q fever. Q fever is transmitted by the inhalation of aerosols contaminated with the birth products and excretions of infected animals, mainly of sheep and goats. A 28-year-old cattle raiser presented with headache and fever without a significant medical history, although his cattle herd had previously been diagnosed with brucellosis. He spent time outdoors but reported no tick bites or eschar. Initial evaluation revealed mild thrombocytopenia and elevated aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, and C-reactive protein levels. On day 2 after disease onset, his blood tested positive for the IS1111 gene of C. burnetii by nested PCR. After amplifying C. burnetii in severe combined immunodeficient mice, the pathogen was isolated using a cell culture system. The isolated CH12 strain was confirmed via PCR, nucleotide sequence analysis, and whole-genome sequencing. This study reports a case of acute Q fever in Korea, in which C. burnetii was isolated and characterized using whole-genome sequencing.
Mitochondrial genome sequence of malaria parasites has served as a potential marker for inferring evolutionary history of the Plasmodium genus. In Plasmodium falciparum, the mitochondrial genome sequences from around the globe have provided important evolutionary understanding, but no Indian sequence has yet been utilized. We have sequenced the whole mitochondrial genome of a single P. falciparum field isolate from India using novel primers and compared with the 3D7 reference sequence and 1 previously reported Indian sequence. While the 2 Indian sequences were highly divergent from each other, the presently sequenced isolate was highly similar to the reference 3D7 strain.
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