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Plant MicrobiologyMolecular Epidemiology of Xanthomonas perforans Outbreaks in Tomato Plants from Transplant to Field as Determined by Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism AnalysisCurrent management of Xanthomonas perforans on tomato plants mainly relies on the frequent application of pesticides. However, the lack of effective pesticides and the development of strain tolerance to certain bactericides limit the ability to control outbreaks in production fields. Better knowledge of probable sources of...
Public and Environmental Health MicrobiologyA Q Fever Outbreak with a High Rate of Abortions at a Dairy Goat Farm: Coxiella burnetii Shedding, Environmental Contamination, and ViabilityThis work describes a 7-month follow-up of the excretion by different routes of Coxiella burnetii genotype SNP1/MST13 in a herd of goats that suffered high rate of abortions (81%), generating high environmental contamination. Some of the workers and visitors who accessed the farm were infected, with fever as the main symptom but a low incidence of pneumonia. The...