Title :

Ehrlichia minasensis sp. nov., isolated from the tick Rhipicephalus microplus

Author(s) :

Cabezas Cruz, Alejandro [Auteur]
Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 [CIIL]
Zweygarth, Erich [Auteur]
Vancova, Marie [Auteur]
University of South Bohemia
Broniszewska, Marzena [Auteur]
Grubhoffer, Libor [Auteur]
University of South Bohemia
Passos, Lygia Maria Friche [Auteur]
Ribeiro, Múcio Flávio Barbosa [Auteur]
Alberdi, Pilar [Auteur]
de La Fuente, Jose [Auteur]

Journal title :

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Pages :

1426-1430

Publisher :

Microbiology Society

Publication date :

2016

ISSN :

1466-5026

English keyword(s) :

Ehrlichia minasensis sp. nov
tick Rhipicephalus microplus

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

English abstract : [en]

Recently, we obtained a rickettsial isolate (Ehrlichia sp. UFMG-EVT ) from the haemolymph of engorged Rhipicephalus microplus tick females. On the basis of maximum-likelihood phylogenetic analysis using 16S rRNA gene, ...
Show more >Recently, we obtained a rickettsial isolate (Ehrlichia sp. UFMG-EVT ) from the haemolymph of engorged Rhipicephalus microplus tick females. On the basis of maximum-likelihood phylogenetic analysis using 16S rRNA gene, groEL, dsb, gltA and trp36 sequences we showed that Ehrlichia sp. UFMG-EVT belongs to the a-Proteobacteria, family Anaplasmataceae, genus Ehrlichia. Ehrlichia sp. UFMG-EVT is a sister taxon of Ehrlichia canis with 16S rRNA gene, groEL, dsb, gltA and trp36 sequence similarities of 98.3 %, 97.2 %, 94.7 %, 94.3 % and 49.1 %, respectively. Ehrlichia sp. UFMG-EVT has been maintained in the laboratory by continuous passage in the IDE8 tick cell line where the ultrastructure was characterized using electron microscopy and was found to resemble that of E. canis, Ehrlichia muris and Ehrlichia chaffeensis, but not Ehrlichia ruminantium and Ehrlichia ewingii. We propose the name Ehrlichia minasensis sp. nov. for this bacterium to acknowledge the place from where it was initially isolated, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The type strain is strain Ehrlichia sp. UFMG-EVT (5DSM 100393T 5TCB-TBB-0018T ).Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Comment :

Contribution: Conceived the idea and drafted the manuscript

Collections :

• Centre d'Infection et d'Immunité de Lille (CIIL) - U1019 - UMR 9017

Source :

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