Publication Date:
2013-07-17
Description:
Nature Reviews Microbiology 11, 561 (2013). doi:10.1038/nrmicro3049 Authors: Erin J. van Schaik, Chen Chen, Katja Mertens, Mary M. Weber & James E. Samuel The agent of Q fever, Coxiella burnetii, is an obligate intracellular bacterium that causes acute and chronic infections. The study of C. burnetii pathogenesis has benefited from two recent fundamental advances: improved genetic tools and the ability to grow the bacterium in extracellular
Print ISSN:
1740-1526
Electronic ISSN:
1740-1534
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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