Biology:Neorickettsia sennetsu

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Short description: Species of bacterium


Ehrlichiaceae
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Rickettsiales
Family: Anaplasmataceae
Genus: Neorickettsia
Species:
N. sennetsu
Binomial name
Neorickettsia sennetsu
(Misao and Kobayashi 1956) Dumler et al. 2001
Synonyms[1]
  • Rickettsia sennetsu Misao and Kobayashi 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)
  • Ehrlichia sennetsu (Misao and Kobayashi 1956) Ristic and Huxsoll 1984

Neorickettsia sennetsu is a Gram-negative bacterium that causes Sennetsu ehrlichiosis. N. sennetsu is thought to be contracted by eating raw fish.[2]

Genomic data suggests that N. sennetsu is more closely related to N. risticii than N. helminthoeca.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Reorganization of genera in the families Rickettsiaceae and Anaplasmataceae in the order Rickettsiales: unification of some species of Ehrlichia with Anaplasma, Cowdria with Ehrlichia and Ehrlichia with Neorickettsia, descriptions of six new species combinations and designation of Ehrlichia equi and 'HGE agent' as subjective synonyms of Ehrlichia phagocytophila". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 51 (Pt 6): 2145–65. 2001. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-6-2145. PMID 11760958. 
  2. ↑ Dittrich, Sabine; Phuklia, Weerawat; Turner, Gareth D. H.; Rattanavong, Sayaphet; Chansamouth, Vilada; Dumler, Stephen J.; Ferguson, David J. P.; Paris, Daniel H. et al. (2015). "Neorickettsia sennetsu as a Neglected Cause of Fever in South-East Asia". PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 9 (7). doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003908. ISSN 1935-2735. PMID 26158273. 
  3. ↑ Greiman, Stephen E.; Tkach, Vasyl V.; Pulis, Eric; Fayton, Thomas J.; Curran, Stephen S. (2014). "Large scale screening of digeneans for Neorickettsia endosymbionts using real-time PCR reveals new Neorickettsia genotypes, host associations and geographic records". PLOS ONE 9 (6). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0098453. ISSN 1932-6203. PMID 24911315. Bibcode: 2014PLoSO...998453G. 

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