Talk:Coxiella burnetii

This is a format experiment on linked pathogen and disease

Please read Coxiella burnetii and Q fever together, and help me work out formats, and how much overlap, there should exist between the article on a pathogen and a disease it produces. I'd welcome someone taking on a pathogen that takes produces more than one disease -- should dengue virus have separate articles for dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever?

Howard C. Berkowitz 22:19, 1 June 2008 (CDT)

Howard, in order to satisfied the scientist/pathologists and the MD, we will probably need two pages or more for all of these virus/diseases.

• Q fever
  • description of symptoms, worldwide incidence, first described by Dr. so and so, and note the causitive agent
  • available treatments and vaccines if they exist
  • likely prognosis/after effects, best-worst outcomes
  • medical confirmation tests and the like.

• Coxiella burnetii
  • description of agent (bacterial, virus, dsDNA or ssRNA, etc), family, genus, and so forth
  • a description of the clades and strains
  • molecular biology
  • structural biology
  • evolution

A division along these lines should be satisfactory to everyone. David E. Volk 09:06, 2 June 2008 (CDT)

Two links below are the outlines I started with C. burnetii and Q fever. I have not yet folded the experience in writing those two drafts into the outlines. Still, I think the idea of outlines is appropriate. For the diseases, is it worth having, even in table form, a list of organ systems affected/not affected? Perhaps a parallel table for physical examination?

• User:Howard C. Berkowitz/DiseasePage: Complementing PathogenPage, this is a sample of an article outline for the pathogen that causes a disease.
• User:Howard C. Berkowitz/PathogenPage: Complementing DiseasePage, this is a sample of an article outline for the disease caused by a particular pathogen. There will need to be variations for bacteria, viruses, fungi, etc.

Viruses are going to be annoying, starting with even common names: Ebola, Ebola Virus, EHF virus, and some just merge: Ebola fever virus. For many viruses, the binomial taxonomic nam certainly doesn't seem to be used, and people wouldn't recognize them.

The second area of problem is that I think we are going to need some subsections appropriate to the broad type of organism. My lab experience with virology is limited, so I don't know what I'd put into an electron microscopy section analogous to stains for bacteria. Will one "culture" main heading work, with appropriate media for bacteria and cell lines for viruses Howard C. Berkowitz 10:56, 2 June 2008 (CDT)