ArticleMicrobiology spectrum2022
Performance Evaluation and Validation of Air Samplers To Detect Aerosolized Coxiella burnetii.
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- Culture and real-time quantitative PCR to detect environmental nontuberculous mycobacteria in a clinical care center.Total environment microbiology · 2025Article
- From air to insight: the evolution of airborne DNA sequencing technologies.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2025Review
- Tracking the Source of Human Q Fever from a Southern French Village: Sentinel Animals and Environmental Reservoir.Microorganisms · 2023Article
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Abstract
Coxiella burnetii, the etiological agent of Q fever, is an intracellular zoonotic pathogen transmitted via the respiratory route. Once released from infected animals, C. burnetii can travel long distances through air before infecting another host. As such, the ability to detect the presence of C. burnetii in air is important. In this study, three air samplers, AirPort MD8, BioSampler, and the Coriolis Micro, were assessed against a set of predetermined criteria in the presence of three different aerosolized C. burnetii concentrations. Two liquid collection media, phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) and alkaline polyethylene glycol (Alk PEG), were tested with devices requiring a collection liquid. Samples were tested by quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay (qPCR) targeting the single-copy
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