| Cross Index | Ehrlichia |
| 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 | Ehrlichia |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Small, often pleomorphic, coccoid to ellipsoidal organisms occurring intracytoplasmically, either singly or in compact inclusions (morulae) in circulating leukocytes of susceptible mammalian hosts. Vectors, when known, are ticks. Organisms may grow in tick vector. Non-motile. Not cultivable in cell-free media or chicken embryos. Some species cultivable in blood monocyte cultures. The etiological agents of diseases of dogs, cattle, sheep, goats, horses, and man. . |
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| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Ehrlichia |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
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| ENVIRONMENTAL |
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| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Ehrlichia |
| G+C Mol % | The mol% G + C of the DNA is unknown |
| Reference | Ehrlichia |
| First citation | Moshkovski, S.D.1945. Cytotropic inducers of infeection and the classification of the Rickettsiae with Chlamydozoa ( Russian with english summary) Adv. Mod Biol Moscow 19: 1-44 |
| The Prokaryotes | P |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 704 M. Ristic and D. L. Huxsoll |
| References |