Diverse and atypical manifestations of Q fever in a metropolitan city hospital: Emerging role of next-generation sequencing for laboratory diagnosis of Coxiella burnetii

• Fanfan Xing,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8233-5127

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• Haiyan Ye,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Chaowen Deng,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Linlin Sun,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Yanfei Yuan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Qianyun Lu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Jin Yang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Simon K. F. Lo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Ruiping Zhang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

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• Jonathan H. K. Chen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, China

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• Jasper F. W. Chan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control, The University of Hong Kong—Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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• Susanna K. P Lau ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: skplau@hku.hk (SKPL); pcywoo@hku.hk (PCYW)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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• Patrick C. Y. Woo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: skplau@hku.hk (SKPL); pcywoo@hku.hk (PCYW)

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9401-1832

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