Abstract
The genus Neorickettsia includes a small number of obligate intracellular rickettsial bacteria normally endosymbiotic within all stages of digenean complex life cycles, where they are maintained through vertical transmission. Under some circumstances Neorickettsia may also be transmitted horizontally by digenean parasites to their vertebrate definitive hosts where they may infect macrophages and other cell types and cause diseases, in some cases severe. This chapter briefly discusses the history of research on Neorickettsia, their phylogenetic interrelationships, transmission biology of different species and species-level genetic lineages within the genus, associations among Neorickettsia and their digenean and vertebrate hosts, geographic distribution, and PCR-based molecular diagnostics and identification of Neorickettsia.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Title of host publication | Rickettsiales |
Subtitle of host publication | Biology, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, and Vaccine Development |
Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
Pages | 295-325 |
Number of pages | 31 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319468594 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783319468570 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2016 |
Keywords
- Distribution
- Host associations
- Molecular diagnostics
- Neorickettsia
- Potomac horse fever
- Salmon poisoning of dogs
- Sennetsu fever
- Transmission