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| This organism causes anaplasmosis in cattle and other ruminants. It's transmitted via Ixodid ticks and invade the center of RBCs. It's more severe as age of infected animal increases. |
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| This organism causes bovine anaplasmosis by invading the margins of RBCs resulting in anemia and janudice. |
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| This organism causes canine anaplasmosis and equine granulocytic ehrlichiosis and is trasmitted by hard ticks. It lacks genes for LPS and peptidoglycan and inhibits apoptosis. |
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| Anaplasma phagocytophilum |
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| This self-limiting organism affects platelets causing infectious canine cyclic thrombocytopenia (ICCT). It's trasmitted via Rhipicephalus sanguineus, is gram negative and has a double membrane. |
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| This organism causes abortions storms primarily in goats and sheep. It contains LPS but no peptidoglycan. It cannot make ATP and cycles through two forms: elementary bodies (inert infective) and reticulate bodies (metabolically active, non-infective) later in life. |
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| This organism causes conjunctivitis in cats. |
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| This organism affects mostly humans (but also horses and dogs) and causes respiratory disease, fever and non-productive cough. |
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| This organism causes pssitacosis (parrot fever) resulting in anorexia, lethargy, ruffled feathers and respiratory issues. |
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| This organism affects most domesticated animals and humans and has two phases: Phase I (smooth LPS, virulent, complete O-antigen) and Phase II (rough LPS, avirulent, missing O-antigen sugars). |
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| This organism affects macrophages (can survive in phagolysosome) and has two forms: Acute form (blood, lungs, spleen) and Chronic form (uterus, mammary glands). |
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| This organism causes Q fever. |
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| This organism causes canine monocytic ehrlichiosis. It's transmitted via Rhipicephalis sanguineus. |
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| This organism is small and gram negative. It has two forms: Acute (lethargy, fever, anorexia) and Chronic (bleeding disorders, weight loss, pancytopenia, hyperviscosity syndrome). |
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| This organism causes human monocytic ehrlichiosis. |
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This organism affects monocytes and macrophages and is transmitted by Amblyomma americanum. It causes fever, headache and GI upset.
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| This organism causes canine granulocytic ehrlichiosis. |
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This organism affects granulocytes and is transmitted by Amblyomma americanum. It causes polyarthritis and CNS signs.
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| This organism causes heartwater disease. |
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| This organism causes feline infectious anemia. |
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| This organism affects RBCs of cats and is transmitted by biting, fleas, and in utero. It is the smallest free-living bacteria, lacks a cell wall and is host-specific |
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| This organism causes anemia in immunocompromised cats. |
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| This organism causes canine hemobartonellosis. |
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| This organism is transmitted via Rhipicephalis sanguineus and affects canine RBCs. Results in inapparent infection unless immunocompromised. |
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| This organism causes eperythrozoonosis. |
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| This organism affects RBCs of swine and is transmitted via hog lous (haematopinus suis), needles and in utero. |
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| This organism causes salmon poisoning disease. |
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| Neorickettsia helminthoeca |
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| This organism affects canine mononuclear leukocytes and is transmitted via fluke-infested fish. |
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| Neorickettsia helminthoeca |
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| This organism is a small, non-motile coccoid and results in hypertrophy of mesenteric and ileocecal lymph nodes; oculonasal discharge, vomiting with progressive weight loss and bloody diarrhea. |
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| Neorickettsia helminthoeca |
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| This organism causes potomac horse fever. |
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| This organism causes equine monocytic ehrlichiosis. |
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| This organism is transmitted via fluke-infested insects and is a small, non-motile coccoid. It causes acute diarrhea and abortion in horses. |
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| This organism causes sennetsu fever. |
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| This organism affects human mononuclear leukocyutes and is transmitted via fluke-infested fish. Results in fever, malaise and anorexia. |
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| This organism causes rocky mountain spotted fever. |
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This organism affects endothelial cells of dogs and humans and is transmitted via Dermacentor variabilis, D. andersoni, Amblyomma americanum and Rhipicephalus sanguineus.
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| This organism causes widespread vasculitis, leakage of fluid into extracellular spaces; join/muscle pain, lethargy and fever. |
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