Neorickettsia sennetsu
| Ehrlichiaceae | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| 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] | |
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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
- ↑ Dumler JS, Barbet AF, Bekker CP, et al. (2001). "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. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-6-2145. PMID 11760958.
- ↑ Dittrich, Sabine; Phuklia, Weerawat; Turner, Gareth D. H.; Rattanavong, Sayaphet; Chansamouth, Vilada; Dumler, Stephen J.; Ferguson, David J. P.; Paris, Daniel H.; Newton, Paul N. (2015). "Neorickettsia sennetsu as a Neglected Cause of Fever in South-East Asia". PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 9 (7) e0003908. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003908. ISSN 1935-2735. PMC 4497638. PMID 26158273.
- ↑ 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) e98453. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...998453G. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0098453. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4049572. PMID 24911315.