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)