Taxobox
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name = Anaplasmataceae
regnum = Bacteria
phylum = Proteobacteria
classis = Alpha Proteobacteria
ordo = Rickettsiales
familia = Anaplasmataceae
genus = Ehrlichia
species = ewingii
Ehrlichia ewingii is a species of rickettsiales bacteria.
It has recently been associated with human infection.[cite journal |author=Buller RS, Arens M, Hmiel SP, "et al" |title=Ehrlichia ewingii, a newly recognized agent of human ehrlichiosis |journal=N. Engl. J. Med. |volume=341 |issue=3 |pages=148–55 |year=1999 |month=July |pmid=10403852 |doi= |url=http://content.nejm.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=short&pmid=10403852&promo=ONFLNS19] ]There is currently no serological test.[cite journal |author=Zhang C, Xiong Q, Kikuchi T, Rikihisa Y |title=Identification of 19 polymorphic major outer membrane protein genes and their immunogenic peptides in Ehrlichia ewingii for use in a serodiagnostic assay |journal=Clin. Vaccine Immunol. |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=402–11 |year=2008 |month=March |pmid=18094116 |pmc=2268259 |doi=10.1128/CVI.00366-07 |url=http://cvi.asm.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=18094116] ]The name was proposed in 1992.[cite journal |author=Anderson BE, Greene CE, Jones DC, Dawson JE |title=Ehrlichia ewingii sp. nov., the etiologic agent of canine granulocytic ehrlichiosis |journal=Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=299–302 |year=1992 |month=April |pmid=1581189 |doi= |url=] ]It is classified under Ehrlichia. [MeshName|Ehrlichia+ewingii]
ee also
* Ehrlichiosis
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