Both symbiotic and pathogenic bacteria in the family Coxiellaceae cause morbidity and
mortality in humans and animals. For instance, Coxiella-like endosymbionts (CLEs) improve …

Q fever is a highly infectious disease with a worldwide distribution. Its causative agent, the
intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii, infects a variety of vertebrate species, including …

Coxiella burnetii, the etiologic agent of acute Q fever and chronic endocarditis, has a unique
biphasic life cycle, which includes a metabolically active intracellular form that occupies a …

Understanding the symbiotic interaction between Coxiella‐like endosymbionts (CLE) and
their tick hosts is challenging due to lack of isolates and difficulties in tick functional assays …

In the past two decades, many Coxiella-like bacteria have been found in hard ticks and soft
ticks as well as in vertebrate hosts. It is interesting to note that many ticks harbor Coxiella …

Amblyomma americanum (Lone star tick) is an important disease vector in the United States.
It transmits several human pathogens, including the agents of human monocytic ehrlichiosis …

Coxiella is a genus of obligate intracellular bacteria engaged in a variety of interactions with
eukaryotes. The type species, Coxiella burnetii, infects several vertebrate species, including …

Ticks are blood-feeding arthropods and can harbor several bacteria, including the
worldwide zoonotic disease Q-fever agent Coxiella burnetii. Recent studies have reported a …

Genome reduction is a hallmark of symbiotic genomes, and the rate and patterns of gene
loss associated with this process have been investigated in several different symbiotic …

Coxiella burnetii is a zoonotic bacterium with an obligatory intracellular lifestyle and has a
worldwide distribution. Coxiella burnetii is the causative agent of Q fever in humans and …