Investigation of Coxiella burnetii antibodies in sheep in Aydin region, Turkey

Characteristics of the epidemiology of C. burnetii are the many reservoirs and multiple infection cycles. The principal vectors of C. burnetii are ticks, which transmit the agent to wild animals (causing wildlife coxiellosis) or to domestic animals (creating the livestock reservoir of C. burnetii) [17, 19]. The most important reservoirs in nature are small wild rodents, but infection has been identified in a wide variety of other animals, including arthropods, ungulates, ruminants, marsupials, birds, and fish [22, 31, 35].