Serological evidence of Q fever among dairy cattle and buffalo populations in the Campania region, Italy

G Ferrara, B Colitti, U Pagnini, D D'Angelo, G Iovane… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to its economic impact on livestock and its zoonotic effect, Q fever is a public and animal
health problem. Information on this infection in Italy is presently supported by reports of …

[HTML][HTML] A review of coxiellosis (Q fever) and brucellosis in goats and humans: Implications for disease control in smallholder farming systems in Southeast Asia

RJL Burns, KK Le, J Siengsanun-Lamont, SD Blacksell - One Health, 2023 - Elsevier
Coxiella burnetii and Brucella spp. are pathogenic bacteria that can cause large-scale
outbreaks in livestock. Furthermore, these infectious agents are capable of causing zoonotic …

A protein–protein interaction map reveals that the Coxiella burnetii effector CirB inhibits host proteasome activity

M Fu, Y Liu, G Wang, P Wang, J Zhang, C Chen… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Coxiella burnetii is the etiological agent of the zoonotic disease Q fever, which is featured by
its ability to replicate in acid vacuoles resembling the lysosomal network. One key virulence …

High prevalence of Rickettsia spp. in ticks from wild hedgehogs rather than domestic bovine in Jiangsu province, Eastern China

Y Qi, L Ai, J Jiao, J Wang, D Wu, P Wang… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Spotted fever group Rickettsia (SFGR), containing various pathogenic
Rickettsia spp., poses remarkable negative influences to public health by causing various …

Skin infectome of patients with a tick bite history

J Zhang, YC Zheng, YL Chu, XM Cui, R Wei… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Ticks are the most important obligate blood-feeding vectors of human
pathogens. With the advance of high-throughput sequencing, more and more bacterial …

Identification of Tick-Borne Pathogens and Genotyping of Coxiella burnetii in Rhipicephalus microplus in Yunnan Province, China

J Jiao, J Zhang, P He, X OuYang, Y Yu, B Wen… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Rhipicephalus microplus, a vector that can transmit many pathogens to humans and
domestic animals, is widely distributed in Yunnan province, China. However, few reports on …

Seroprevalence and factors associated with Coxiella burnetii exposure in goats in Moretele

R Magadu, PN Thompson - Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary …, 2023 - journals.co.za
Infection with Coxiella burnetii causes significant economic impact and poses zoonotic risk
to people exposed to livestock, yet few studies in South Africa have assessed …

Coxiella burnetii plasmid effector B promotes LC3-II accumulation and contributes to bacterial virulence in a SCID mouse model

M Fu, J Zhang, M Zhao, S Zhang, L Dai… - Infection and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent of zoonotic Q fever, is characterized by replicating
inside the lysosome-derived Coxiella-containing vacuole (CCV) in host cells. Some effector …

Role of Goats in the Epidemiology of Coxiella burnetii

S Anastácio, SR de Sousa, MJ Saavedra, GJ da Silva - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This review article aims to compile the information published in the
scientific literature regarding Coxiella burnetii infection in goats and their role in the …

Novel genotypes of Coxiella burnetii circulating in rats in Yunnan Province, China

M Fu, P He, X OuYang, Y Yu, B Wen, D Zhou… - BMC Veterinary …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Coxiella burnetii (Cb) is the causative agent of the zoonotic disease Q
fever which is distributed worldwide. Molecular typing of Cb strains is essential to find out the …