Coxiella (bacterium)
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Coxiella refers to a genus of Gram-negative bacteria in the family Coxiellaceae. It is named after Harold Herald Rea Cox (1907–1986), an American bacteriologist. It is one of the Gammaproteobacteria.[1]
Coxiella burnetii is the only member of this genus. It is an intracellular bacterium and it survives within the phagolysosomes of its host. It causes Q fever.
References
- ^ Coxiella at the U.S. National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
External links
- Coxiella genomes and related information at PATRIC, a Bioinformatics Resource Center funded by NIAID
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