High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Coxiella burnetii is an obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen, and is the causative agent of Q fever. The genus Coxiella is morphologically similar to Rickettsia, but with a variety of genetic and physiological differences. C. burnetii are small Gram-negative bacteria that are highly resistant to environmental stresses such as high temperature, osmotic pressure, and ultraviolet light. These characteristics are attributed to a small cell variant (SCV) form of the organism that is part of a biphasic developmental cycle including a more metabolically and replicatively active large cell variant (LCV) form. It can survive standard disinfectants, and is resistant to many other environmental changes like those presented in the phagolysosome. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в частности. Собранная по частотным запросам...