MRPS23 and Q fever: The strains from the rats in Yunnan were recognized as genotype 1 using 6 MLVA loci (ms21, ms22, ms23, ms28, ms33, and ms34) (Fig. 3), and this genotype was mainly found in strains both from Q fever patients and ticks according to the database of MLVABank (http://mlva.u-psud.fr/mlvav4/genotyping/).