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This study investigated a 2025 outbreak on a Boer goat breeding farm in South Korea and compared its molecular characteristics with those of a separate 2024 outbreak. Conventional PCR targeting the IS1111 insertion element was used to test 87 goats, three female farm dogs, and four barn-level composite environmental samples. Positive goat samples underwent multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis and multispacer sequence typing. Coxiella burnetii was detected in 60 of 87 goats (69.0%) and in one environmental sample, whereas dogs were negative. Two multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat profiles were identified among four goat samples, and two goats from different barns shared a profile provisionally designated MST77-like because it clustered near, but was not identical to, the MST77 reference profile. After movement restrictions, oxytetracycline treatment, environmental management, and serial monitoring, 11 of 57 previously positive goats remained positive at the second screening, and none of these 11 goats tested positive at the final examination. Complete herd clearance and the independent effect of antimicrobial treatment could not be confirmed because previously negative goats were not retested and no untreated comparison group was available. 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