| genotypic diversity of clinical coxiella burnetii isolates from portugal based on mst and mlva typing. | the temporal and spatial diversity of coxiella burnetii genotypes associated with human and animal disease in portugal was analysed using a 6-locus multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (mlva) and a 10-locus multi-spacer sequence typing (mst) panel. fifteen cultured c. burnetii isolates from 13 q fever patients and a stillborn goat and 6 additional pcr-positive ruminant tissue samples obtained during 2006-2011 were included in this study. seven mlva genotypes (types s-y) were obt ... | 2012 | 23040417 |