T number | T00224 |
Org_code | eru |
Name | Ehrlichia ruminantium Welgevonden (South Africa) |
Category | Type strain |
Annotation | yes |
Taxonomy | TAX: 254945 |
Lineage | Bacteria; Pseudomonadota; Alphaproteobacteria; Rickettsiales; Anaplasmataceae; Ehrlichia |
Brite | KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611] |
Data source | GenBank (Assembly: GCA_000026005.1 Complete Genome) BioProject: 9614 |
Original DB | Sanger |
Keywords | Animal pathogen |
Comment | Transmitted by ticks of the genus Amblyomma. Causes heartwater, a fatal and economically important disease of wild and domestic ruminants. Derived from the South African Welgevonden isolate.
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Chromosome | Circular |
Sequence | GB: CR767821 |
Length | 1516355 |
Statistics | Number of nucleotides: 1516355 Number of protein genes: 888 Number of RNA genes: 41
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Created | 2005 |
Reference | PMID: 15637156 |
Authors | Collins NE, Liebenberg J, de Villiers EP, Brayton KA, Louw E, Pretorius A, Faber FE, van Heerden H, Josemans A, van Kleef M, et al. |
Title | The genome of the heartwater agent Ehrlichia ruminantium contains multiple tandem repeats of actively variable copy number. |
Journal | Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:838-43 (2005) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0406633102 |