RT Book, Section
A1 Schutze, Gordon E.
A2 Rudolph, Colin D.
A2 Rudolph, Abraham M.
A2 Lister, George E.
A2 First, Lewis R.
A2 Gershon, Anne A.
SR Print(0)
ID 7028445
T1 Chapter 290. Q Fever
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-149723-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=7028445
RD 2024/10/07
AB Coxiella  burnetii  is  an  obligate  intracellular  pleomorphic  gram-negative  coccobacillus  that  was  originally  named  Rickettsia  burnetii.  Extensive  changes  in  the  taxonomy  of  rickettsiae  based  on  the  sequencing  of  the  16S  rRNA  has  resulted  in  the  removal  of  Cburnetii  from  the  order  Rickettsiales  and  now  finds  it  in  the  order  Legionellales  falling  into  the  gamma  group  of  proteobacteria  along  with  Legionella  pneumophila,  and  Francisella  tularensis.1,2  The  reader  should  not  become  too  comfortable  with  this  new  classification  because  as  new  Coxiella-like  organisms  are  found,  the  phylogenetic  relationships  of  this  group  of  organisms  will  be  readdressed  in  the  future.