| Entry | T00233 |
| Org code | erw |
| Name | Ehrlichia ruminantium Welgevonden (France) |
| Category | Type strain |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX: 254945 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Alphaproteobacteria; Rickettsiales; Anaplasmataceae; Ehrlichia; canis group; Ehrlichia ruminantium |
| 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_000050425.1 Complete Genome) BioProject: 13355 |
| Keywords | Animal pathogen |
| Comment | Causative agent of heartwater, a major tick-borne disease of livestock in Africa. Isolated in South Africa in 1985 from mice injected with individually homogenized, infected, field-collected Amblyomma hebraeum ticks.
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| Chromosome | Circular |
| Sequence | GB: CR925678 |
| Length | 1512977 |
| Statistics | Number of nucleotides: 1512977 Number of protein genes: 958 Number of RNA genes: 39
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| Created | 2005 |
| Reference | PMID: 16547041 |
| Authors | Frutos R, Viari A, Ferraz C, Morgat A, Eychenie S, Kandassamy Y, Chantal I, Bensaid A, Coissac E, Vachiery N, et al. |
| Title | Comparative genomic analysis of three strains of Ehrlichia ruminantium reveals an active process of genome size plasticity. |
| Journal | J Bacteriol 188:2533-42 (2006) DOI: 10.1128/JB.188.7.2533-2542.2006 |