Ehrlichia ruminantium
Ruminant disease / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Heartwater?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
Heartwater (also known as cowdriosis, nintas, and ehrlichiosis) is a tick-borne rickettsial disease.[2] The name is derived from the fact that fluid can collect around the heart or in the lungs of infected animals.[3] It is caused by Ehrlichia ruminantium (formerly Cowdria ruminantium)—an intracellular Gram-negative coccal bacterium (also referred to as Rickettsia ruminantium). The disease is spread by various Amblyomma ticks, and has a large economic impact on cattle production in affected areas. There are four documented manifestations of the disease, these are acute, peracute, subacute, and a mild form known as heartwater fever. There are reports of zoonotic infections of humans by E. ruminantium, similar to other Ehrlichia species, such as those that cause human ehrlichiosis.[4][5][6]
Ehrlichia ruminantium | |
---|---|
Ehrlichia ruminantium bacteria within cell of brain of sheep that died of heartwater in Africa. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
Order: | Rickettsiales |
Family: | Ehrlichiaceae |
Genus: | Ehrlichia |
Species: | E. ruminantium |
Binomial name | |
Ehrlichia ruminantium (Cowdry 1925) Dumler et al. 2001[1] | |
Synonyms | |
|