Updates on Rickettsia and Coxiella (Closed)
A topical collection in Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This collection belongs to the section "Parasitic Pathogens".
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Interests: molecular diagnostics; microbial molecular biology; Q fever; Rickettsia infections; Rickettsiaceae; Coxiella burnetii; microbiology; ticks; zoonotic diseases; DNA
2. Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand
Interests: rickettsial organisms; tropical diseases; global health; arthropod-borne pathogens; zoonotic diseases; diagnostics development
Topical Collection Information
Dear Colleagues,
Rickettsiae and Coxiella are distinct bacterial groups, with the former an alphaproteobacterium and the later a gammaproteopbacterium, each with unique growth dynamics. Rickettsiae replicate in the cytosol or nucleus of eukaryotic cells while Coxiella grow in a pathogen-modified phagolysosome. These differences extend to their routes of transmission with rickettsiae mostly transmitted by arthropod vectors and Coxiella by air-borne transmission. However there is significant overlap in numerous aspects of their biology. This includes overlapping environmental niches, host and vector animals, and infection profiles in humans.
This Topic Collection, published by the journal Pathogens, will provide our small but productive community with an update on Coxiella and Rickettsiae. We are seeking papers from a wide scope, including epidemiological, species description and characterization, diagnostic assays, and vaccine development. We invite our colleagues from all disciplines, including clinical and basic research, to contribute their manuscripts for publication review in this Topic Collection of the journal dedicated to our favorite microbes.
Dr. John Stenos
Dr. Mohammad Yazid Abdad
Collection Editors
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Keywords
- Rickettsiae
- Coxiella