Q fever is a zoonotic infectious disease caused by the intracellular bacterial pathogen Coxiella burnetii,which often manifests clinically as a fever,rash,and swollen lymph nodes.As these clinical symptoms are nonspec...
supported by grants from National Key R&D Program of China(2019YFC1200501);Research Units of Discovery of Unknown Bacteria and Function(2018RU010);Capacity Enhancement Project supported by National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention(China CDC).
Objective The purpose of this study was to investigate the bacterial communities of biting midges and ticks collected from three sites in the Poyang Lake area,namely,Qunlu Practice Base,Peach Blossom Garden,and Huangt...
Ticks are reservoirs of a variety of pathogens including bacteria, viruses and protozoa. We used PCR to detect pathogens of public health importance in ticks collected from diverse regions of Kenya. 503 tick pools wer...
supported by research grant(No.AT-30-296) from king Ahdulaziz city
Objective:To detect Coxiella burnetii(C.burnetii)DNA in clinical specimens from camel,goats,cattle and sheep in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.Methods:A total of 367 clinical samples including blood,milk,faeces and urine...
Q fever is a widespread zoonotic infection caused by Coxiella burnetii. During acute infection, three clinical patterns are commonly encountered—self limited, flu like disease, atypical pneumonia or hepatits. Chronic...
Although Coxiella burnetii is considered to be an obligate intracellular bacterium and grows in embryonated eggs, laboratory animals and cell culture, recently it has been grown in cell-free media and on agar plates. ...
financially supported by Research Center for Tropical and Infectious Diseases,Kerman University of Medical Sciences,Kerman,Iran and Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman,Iran
Objective:To determine the prevalence of Coxiella burnetii(C.burnetii) antibody positive randomly selected dairy herds in southeast Iran(Kerman).Methods:Bulk tank milk samples were collected randomly from 44 sufficien...