| Entry | T00224 |
| Org code | eru |
| Name | Ehrlichia ruminantium Welgevonden (South Africa) |
| Category | Type strain |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX:254945 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Alphaproteobacteria; Rickettsiales; Anaplasmataceae; Ehrlichia; Ehrlichia ruminantium |
| Org group | Bacteria; Alphaproteobacteria; Rickettsiales |
| 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) |
| 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. |
| Chromosome | Circular (GB: CR767821) |
| Statistics | Number of protein genes: 888
Number of RNA genes: 41 |
| 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 |
