| diversity and global distribution of the coxiella intracellular bacterium in seabird ticks. | the obligate intracellular bacterium coxiella burnetii is the etiological agent of q fever, a widespread zoonotic disease whose most common animal reservoirs are domestic ruminants. recently, a variety of coxiella-like organisms have also been reported from non-mammalian hosts, including pathogenic forms in birds and forms without known effects in ticks, raising questions about the potential importance of non-mammalian hosts as reservoirs of coxiella in the wild. in the present study, we examine ... | 2014 | 24915875 |