| 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 |