Ehrlichieae


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Ehrlichieae

[‚er·lə′kī·ē‚ē]
(microbiology)
A tribe of the family Rickettsiaceae; spherical and occasionally pleomorphic cells; pathogenic for some mammals, not including humans.
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Philip gave the name Ehrlichieae to this family of bacteria, after Paul Ehrlich, who initially described a disease associated with small, gram-negative bacteria known to infect cattle, sheep, goats, and dogs.
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Under the proposed revision, the tribe structure of the Rickettsiaceae would be abolished, and species in the Ehrlichieae tribe would be assigned to the family Anaplasmataceae, with several placed into the genera Ehrlichia (Cowdria ruminantium), Anaplasma (E.
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Experimental transmission of a granulocytic form of the tribe Ehrlichieae by Dermacentor variabilis and Amblyomma americanum to dogs.
Ehrlichia ewingii infection in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). (Research)

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