Background Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent of Q fever, may cause culture-negative vascular graft infections. Very few cases of C. burnetii infection of a vascular graft have been reported. All were diagnosed by serology.
Von Segesser Ludwig +6 more
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Investigation of Coxiella burnetii distribution in a Scottish dairy cattle herd with history of stillbirths. [PDF]
Abstract Background Coxiella burnetii is a bacterial pathogen that can cause abortion and reproductive disease in livestock. In the UK, C. burnetii affects many dairy cattle herds, although the infection dynamics are poorly understood. Our study was performed to investigate infection patterns within a dairy cattle herd in Scotland that had experienced ...
Halliday JEB +6 more
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Seroepidemiology of Coxiella Burnetii in commercial dairy herds in northeast of Iran [PDF]
Q fever is an important zoonotic disease caused by infection with Coxiella burnetii. Limited information is available concerning theseroprevalence of Coxiella burnetii in Iran.A serological survey was conducted to describe the eroepidemiology of ...
Mohammad Azizzadeh +3 more
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The causative agent of Q fever, the intracellular pathogen Coxiella burnetii, is found almost worldwide; many types of blood-sucking ticks that are dangerous to animals and humans are involved in the circulation of the pathogen.
Yu. A. Panferova +4 more
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Uptake and fecal excretion of Coxiella burnetii by Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor marginatus ticks [PDF]
Background: The bacterium Coxiella burnetii is the etiological agent of Q fever and is mainly transmitted via inhalation of infectious aerosols. DNA of C.
Henning, Klaus +7 more
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Detection of Coxiella burnetii in Ambient Air after a Large Q Fever Outbreak. [PDF]
One of the largest Q fever outbreaks ever occurred in the Netherlands from 2007-2010, with 25 fatalities among 4,026 notified cases. Airborne dispersion of Coxiella burnetii was suspected but not studied extensively at the time.
Myrna M T de Rooij +6 more
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Chronic Q fever presenting as bilateral extensor tenosynovitis: a case report and review of the literature [PDF]
Musculoskeletal manifestations of Coxiella burnetii are rare. We describe an elderly, immunosuppressed male with bilateral Coxiella burnetii extensor tenosynovitis treated with incision and debridement and chronic doxycycline and hydroxychloroquine ...
K. D. Alder +6 more
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Coxiella burnetii Phagocytosis Is Regulated by GTPases of the Rho Family and the RhoA Effectors mDia1 and ROCK [PDF]
The GTPases belonging to the Rho family control the actin cytoskeleton rearrangements needed for particle internalization during phagocytosis. ROCK and mDia1 are downstream effectors of RhoA, a GTPase involved in that process.
A Alonso +109 more
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Diagnosis of Coxiella burnetii infection via metagenomic next-generation sequencing: a case report
Background Coxiella burnetii, the etiologic agent of Q fever, is mainly responsible for endocardite. But there are only a few cases of Coxiella burnetii-caused wound infection have been published, because the pathogen is very difficult to isolate using ...
Jingjia Zhang +3 more
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Background Coxiella burnetii is an obligate intracellular Gram-negative bacterium that causes a zoonotic disease commonly called Q fever globally. In this study, an up-converting phosphor technology-based lateral flow (UPT-LF) assay was established for ...
Pingping Zhang +10 more
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