Coxiella

Mendoza-Roldan, Jairo Alfonso, Mendoza-Roldan, Miguel Angel & Otranto, Domenico, 2021, Reptile vector-borne diseases of zoonotic concern, International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 15, pp. 132-142 : 137

3.1.4. Coxiella

Coxiella is a genus of obligatory intracellular Gram-negative bacteria, with only one species described (i.e., Coxiella burnetii ), the causative agent of zoonotic Q fever ( Johnson-Delaney, 1996; ˇSiroký et al., 2010). Reptiles and their ticks can act as reservoirs, as for example H. aegyptium tick which parasitizes Mediterranean chelonians (ˇSiroký et al., 2010; Paș;tiu et al., 2012). Other reptilian ticks have been recorded as vectors of C. burnetii , such as Amblyomma exornatum from Guinea Bissau ( Arthur, 1962) and Amblyomma variegatum in Africa ( Giroud, 1951). Importantly, an outbreak of Q fever was described in New York, USA in people that had contact with imported Python regius snakes parasitized with Amblyomma nuttalli from Ghana ( Kim et al., 1978). Nonetheless, Coxiella has been found to be a common symbiont of ticks (Machado-- Ferreira et al., 2016; ˇSpitalska´et al., 2018).