Ehrlichia

• Ehrlichia canis ( Donatien & Lestoquard 1935) Moshkovski 1945
• Ehrlichia chaffensis Anderson et al. 1992
• Ehrlichia ewingii Anderson et al. 1992
• Ehrlichia muris Wen et al. 1995
• Ehrlichia ruminantium ( Cowdry 1925) Dumler et al. 2001

Ehrlichia is a genus of Gram-negative, and from 0.2 to 2 microns large bacteria. They belong to the order Rickettsiales, with their other representatives they share the obligate intracellular parasitic - life. Your name was given to them to commemorate the German microbiologist Paul Ehrlich.

Ehrlichia are known as causative agents of animal diseases, such as ehrlichiosis dog ( Ehrlichia canis or Ehrlichia ewingii ), but can also infect humans. The tick-borne bacteria parasitize in monocytes or granulocytes. While such infections of the victims usually hardly noticed, they can rarely cause very serious diseases that clinically manifest as the Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Possible symptoms

See Lyme Disease

• Polyneuropathy

System

The order Rickettsiales and thus the genus Ehrlichia experienced in recent years, some changes. The entire genus Ehrlichia was separated from the family Rickettsiaceae and asked to Anaplasmataceae. Cowdria ruminatium was placed in this genus and is now a basionym for Ehrlichia ruminantium. Ehrlichia phagocytophila and Ehrlichia equi were summarized in the type Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Ehrlichia risticii was provided to the genus Neorickettsia and thus is now a basionym for Neorickettsia risticii. Rickettsia sennetsu became Neorickettsia sennetsu provided (partly also performed as Ehrlichia sennetsu ).