Abstract
ABSTRACT
Coxiella burnetii
Cb196, with a 2,006,415-bp genome, is a strain isolated from a 45-year-old man in Saudi Arabia with endocarditis. It belongs to the genotype MST51, which was detected for the first time only in this country. Cb196 shows more similarity to
C. burnetii
CbuK_Q154, belonging to genotype 8, which was phylogenetically close to MST51.