“…In addition, the current domestic clinical laboratories lack of routine detection reagents for C. burnetii , such as serological and PCR testing. Based on this case, we searched PubMed using the keywords “mNGS” and “ C. burnetii ” for articles published in the prior five years, analyzing the infection characteristics of C. burnetii, as noted in Table 2 [ [13] , [14] , [15] , [16] , [17] , [18] , [19] , [20] , [21] ]. It was found that all cases of Q fever were detected by mNGS, but most of them were clinically nonspecific except for varying degrees of fever.…”