Q fever (coxiellosis), caused by Coxiella burnetii, is an emerging or re-emerging zoonotic
disease of public health significance and with worldwide distribution. As a causal agent of …

Materials and Methods: Blood samples were collected from 160 apparently healthy farm
animals and 120 patients from three hospitals of the Assiut Governorate throughout …

Coxiella burnetii is a multi‐host bacterium that causes Q fever in humans, a zoonosis that is
emerging worldwide. The ecology of C. burnetii in wildlife is still poorly understood and the …

Q fever is caused by Coxiella burnetii, an organism widely found in nature and responsible
for infections in arthropods, pets, domestic and wild animals, as well as humans (1, 2) …

Dogs and cats are potential sources of infection for some zoonotic diseases such as Q fever,
caused by Coxiella burnetii, a multiple host pathogen. Q fever outbreaks in dogs and cats …

Q fever is a zoonotic disease caused by Coxiella burnetii, a small obligate intracellular Gram-
negative pathogen worldwide spread, except New Zealand (Maurin and Raoult, 1999; …

Background Coxiella burnetii is the causative agent of Q-fever, a widespread zoonosis. Due
to its high environmental stability and infectivity it is regarded as a category B biological …

Background Coxiella burnetii is a highly clonal microorganism which is difficult to culture,
requiring BSL3 conditions for its propagation. This leads to a scarce availability of isolates …

Introduction. Coxiella burnetii is the agent of Q fever, a worldwide zoonosis. To add to the
available knowledge of the disease in China, C. burnetti infections were investigated in …

Q fever is a zoonotic disease caused by the intracellular bacterium, Coxiella burnetii. Its
primary mode of transmission is by inhalation of aerosols originating from infected animals …