Department of Biological Sciences, Humboldt State University, 1 Harpst Street, Arcata, CA 95521, USA.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2012;984:365-79. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-4315-1_18.
In the past two decades, many Coxiella-like bacteria have been found in hard ticks and soft ticks as well as in vertebrate hosts. It is interesting to note that many ticks harbor Coxiella-like bacteria with high prevalence. Coxiella-like bacteria and virulent Coxiella burnetii have high homology to each other; they form a monophyletic clade based on 16S rRNA sequence data and subsequent phylogenetic tree analyses. In this chapter, methods of detection, phylogeny, prevalence and density, distribution in tick organs, transmission routes, bacteria-host interactions, and putative functions of the Coxiella-like bacteria are reviewed.
在过去的二十年中，许多柯克斯体样细菌在硬蜱和软蜱以及脊椎动物宿主中被发现。有趣的是，许多蜱虫携带柯克斯体样细菌的流行率很高。柯克斯体样细菌和毒力柯克斯体燃烧菌彼此之间具有高度同源性；根据 16S rRNA 序列数据和随后的系统发育树分析，它们形成了一个单系进化枝。在这一章中，综述了柯克斯体样细菌的检测方法、系统发育、流行率和密度、在蜱虫器官中的分布、传播途径、细菌-宿主相互作用以及推测的功能。
