Cross Index | Cowdria |
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 | Cowdria |
CELLULAR |
Staining | Gram-negative.. |
Morphology | Small pleomorphic, coccoid or ellipsoidal, occasionally rod-Shaped, organisms occurring intracytoplasmically but not intranuclearly, and characteristically localized in clusters inside vacuoles in the cytoplasm of vascular endothelial cells of ruminants |
Motility | Non-motile |
Specialized structures |
Division |
COLONIAL |
Solid surface |
Liquid | Have not been cultivated in cell-free media. |
Growth Parameters | Cowdria |
PHYSIOLOGICAL |
Tropism | |
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Unique features | . Not passed transovarially in tick vectors |
ENVIRONMENTAL |
Habitat | Endothelial cells of ruminants |
Lifestyle | |
Pathogenicity | The etiological agent of heartwater, a septicemic disease of domestic ruminants in Africa |
Distribution |
Genome | Cowdria |
G+C Mol % | unknown |
Reference | Cowdria |
First citation | Moshkovski,S.D. 1947. Comments by Readers Science(Washington) 106:62 |
The Prokaryotes | p |
Bergey's Systematatic | p 709 M. Ristic and D. L> Huxsoll |
References |