Elliman, J. Ruth, and Owens, L. (2020) Confirmation that candidatus Coxiella cheraxi from redclaw crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus) is a close relative of Coxiella burnetii, the agent of Q-fever. Letters in Applied Microbiology, 71 (3). pp. 320-326.

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Abstract

A Coxiella sp. closely related to the agent of Q-fever, Coxiella burnetii, has been associated with mortalities in redclaw crayfish, (Cherax quadricarinatus), in farms and experimental facilities for three decades. Limited sequence data including 16S rRNA have placed the rickettsial species as a new species, candidatus C. cheraxi closely related to C. burnetii. MinION sequencing was conducted on the last remaining sample from an outbreak of disease, TO-98. The accuracy of base pair reads was mostly 99.9% (error rate 1 in 1000) or better. After filtering for reads of co-isolated Citrobacter freundii, 2629 sequences remained with the longest being 12 585 base pairs (bp). The longest 21 sequences are presented with their single best hit statistics when examined by NCBI BLASTN (nucleotides) and the nucleotides translated into proteins NCBI BLASTX. All sequences hit with either C. burnetii (29/42, 69%) or Coxiella (10/42, 24%) or rickettsia (3/42, 7%) with an error rate of less than 1 in 1 million for either bp or amino acids. Sequencing in this report confirms candidatus C. cheraxi is a new species very closely related to C. burnetii.

Item ID:	65019
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1472-765X
Copyright Information:	Published Version: © 2020 The Society for Applied Microbiology. Accepted Version may be made available in an Institutional Repository after a 12 month embargo.
Funders:	James Cook University (JCU)
Projects and Grants:	JCU Centre for Tropcial Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Long Read Access Grant
Date Deposited:	12 Nov 2020 01:24
FoR Codes:	31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3107 Microbiology > 310701 Bacteriology @ 50% 30 AGRICULTURAL, VETERINARY AND FOOD SCIENCES > 3005 Fisheries sciences > 300501 Aquaculture @ 50%
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