Cross Index | Aegptianella |
SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Rickettsiae & Chlyamdiae |
Compare | Rickkettsiaceae: Cowdria, Coxiella,
Erhlichia, Neorickettsia,
Rickettsia, Rickettsiella,
Rochalimaea Wobachia Bartonellaceae: Bartonella, Grahamella Anaplasmatacae: Aegyptianella, Anaplasma, Eperythrozoan, Haemobartonella |
Contrast | Archaea |
Subset |
Morphology | Aegptianella |
CELLULAR |
Staining | In blood smears stained by Romanowsky methods, the organisms appear in erythrocytes as purple intracytoplasmic inclusions 0.3-4.0 um in diameter. Each inclusion contains up to 26 initial bodies, which are the actual parasitic bacteria, each measuring up to 0.8 um in diameter |
Morphology | |
Motility | |
Specialized structures |
Division |
COLONIAL |
Solid surface |
Liquid |
Growth Parameters | Aegptianella |
PHYSIOLOGICAL |
Tropism | |
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Unique features |
ENVIRONMENTAL |
Habitat | |
Lifestyle | |
Pathogenicity | Obligate parasites of domestic and wild birds. Transmitted by arthropod vectors. |
Distribution |
Genome | Aegptianella |
G+C Mol % | unknown |
Reference | Aegptianella |
First citation | Carpano,M. 1929 Su di un piroplasma osservato nei polli egitto (Aegyptianella pullorum) Bull Minist Agric. Egypt 86:1-12 |
The Prokaryotes | |
Bergey's Systematatic | p 722 R. Gothe and J. P. Kreier |
References |