Despite Coxiella burnetii being an obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen, our recent study
demonstrated that B cells play a critical role in vaccine-induced immunity to C. burnetii …

Q fever is a zoonosis caused by Coxiella burnetii. Infection with C burnetii can be acute or
chronic, and exhibits a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations. The extreme infectivity of the …

Background: Previous studies of inciting factors for a prolonged post-infection fatigue
syndrome after Q fever (variously termed QFS or Q fever associated CFS/ME in the …

The obligate intracellular bacterial agent of human Q fever, Coxiella burnetii, has a
remarkable ability to persist in the extracellular environment. It replicates only when …

The effect of phase I Coxiella burnetii chloroform-methanol residue vaccine (CMRV) on the
response of murine splenic lymphocytes to mitogenic and antigenic stimuli was evaluated in …

Coxiella burnetii is a Gram-negative bacterium that causes Q fever in humans. Q fever is an
atypical pneumonia transmitted through inhalation of contaminated aerosols. In mammalian …

Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent of Q fever, is an obligate intracellular, primarily
pulmonary, bacterial pathogen. Although much is known about adaptive immune responses …

Coxiella burnetii, the etiological agent of Q fever, is an obligate intracellular bacterium
proliferating within the harsh environment of the phagolysosome. Mechanisms controlling …

Summary Objectives In the Netherlands, people at risk for chronic Q fever were vaccinated
against Coxiella burnetii with the inactivated whole cell vaccine Q-vax®. We aimed to …

Coxiella burnetii is the agent of Q fever, or “query fever,” a zoonosis first described in
Australia in 1937. Since this first description, knowledge about this pathogen and its …