Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.994

Name

Ehrlichia equi Lewis et al. 1988

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Ehrlichia Moshkovski 1945 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001

Type Strain

representative organism

10.1601/ex.994

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Rickettsiales Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
family Anaplasmataceae Philip 1957 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
genus Ehrlichia Moshkovski 1945 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
species Ehrlichia equi Lewis et al. 1988

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Ehrlichia equi Lewis et al. 1988. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.994.

Source File

10.1601/tx.994.xml

References

Lewis GE, Huxsoll DL, Ristic M, Johnson AJ. Experimentally induced infection of dogs, cats, and nonhuman primates with Ehrlichia equi, etiologic agent of equine ehrlichiosis. Am J Vet Res 1975; 36:85-88. [PubMed].