The bacterium that causes the disease, C. burnetti Q fever is a disease caused by Coxiella burnetii ,[1] bacteria that affect humans and other animals. It is not common but can be found in cattle , sheep , goats , and other household animals, including cats and dogs . People can get infected if they inhale endospores or touch the milk , urine , feces , vaginal mucus , or semen of infected animals. The disease is rarely carried by ticks .[2] A human can be infected by a single bacterium.[3]
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Rickettsiales
Rickettsiaceae/ (Rickettsioses)
Typhus
Rickettsia typhi
Rickettsia prowazekii
Spotted fever
Tick-borne
Rickettsia rickettsii
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Rickettsia conorii
Rickettsia japonica
Rickettsia sibirica
Rickettsia australis
Rickettsia honei
Flinders Island spotted fever
Rickettsia africae
Rickettsia parkeri
Rickettsia aeschlimannii
Rickettsia aeschlimannii infection
Mite-borne
Rickettsia akari
Orientia tsutsugamushi
Flea-borne
Anaplasmataceae
Ehrlichiosis: Anaplasma phagocytophilum
Human granulocytic anaplasmosis, Anaplasmosis
Ehrlichia chaffeensis
Human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis
Ehrlichia ewingii
Ehrlichiosis ewingii infection
Hyphomicrobiales
Brucellaceae Bartonellaceae
Bartonellosis: Bartonella henselae
Bartonella quintana
Either B. henselae or B. quintana
Bartonella bacilliformis
Carrion's disease, Verruga peruana
β
Neisseriales
M+
Neisseria meningitidis/meningococcus
M−
Neisseria gonorrhoeae/gonococcus
ungrouped:
Eikenella corrodens /Kingella kingae
Chromobacterium violaceum
Chromobacteriosis infection
Burkholderiales
Burkholderia pseudomallei
Burkholderia mallei
Burkholderia cepacia complex
Bordetella pertussis/Bordetella parapertussis
γ
Enterobacteriales (OX−)
Lac+
Escherichia coli : Enterotoxigenic
Enteroinvasive
Enterohemorrhagic
O157:H7
O104:H4
Hemolytic-uremic syndrome
Enterobacter aerogenes/Enterobacter cloacae
Slow/weak
Serratia marcescens
Citrobacter koseri /Citrobacter freundii
Lac−
H2S+ H2S−
Shigella dysenteriae/sonnei/flexneri/boydii
Shigellosis, Bacillary dysentery
Proteus mirabilis /Proteus vulgaris
Yersinia pestis
Yersinia enterocolitica
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Far East scarlet-like fever
Pasteurellales
Haemophilus:
H. influenzae
Haemophilus meningitis
Brazilian purpuric fever
H. ducreyi
H. parainfluenzae
Pasteurella multocida
Pasteurellosis
Actinobacillus
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
Legionellales Thiotrichales Vibrionaceae Pseudomonadales Xanthomonadaceae
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
Cardiobacteriaceae Aeromonadales
Aeromonas hydrophila/Aeromonas veronii
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