Neorickettsia

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Neorickettsia
Specialty Infectious disease

Neorickettsia
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Rickettsiales
Family: Anaplasmataceae
Genus: Neorickettsia
Philip et al. 1953 (Approved Lists 1980)
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Neorickettsia is a genus of bacteria. Species or strains in this genus are coccoid or pleomorphic cells that reside in cytoplasmic vacuoles within monocytes and macrophages of dogs, horses, bats, and humans. [1]

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Neorickettsia sennetsu causes Sennetsu ehrlichiosis. [2] Unlike other forms of ehrlichiosis, Neorickettsia sennetsu is transmitted by trematodes from fish. [3] Neorickettsia risticii causes Potomac horse fever. Neorickettsia helminthoeca is found in association with the trematode Nanophyetus salmincola , and causes salmon poisoning disease in dogs and other canids. Neorickettsia elokominica causes a similar disease, Elokomin fluke fever, in canids and other species.

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References

  1. Garrity, George (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology . Springer. ISBN   0-387-24145-0.
  2. "Neorickettsia_sennetsu | 2can Support Portal | EBI".
  3. "Chapter 5 - Rickettsial (Spotted and Typhus Fevers) and Related Infections (Anaplasmosis and Ehrlichiosis) - 2010 Yellow Book | CDC Travelers' Health".