Rickettsiales Flashcards
Rickettsiales description
Family Anaplasmataceae & Family Rickettsiaceae - Obligate intracellular gram negative bacteria -
Family Anaplasmataceae
Anaplasma - Ehrilichia - Neorickettsia
Anaplasma spp
Survive in cytoplasmic vacuoles of erythrocytes, phagocytes, platelets & myeloid cells
Ehrlichia spp.
Survive in phagocytic cells
Neorickettsia spp
Survive in macrophages & mononuclear cells
Family Rickettsiaceae
Rickettsiae spp: R. rickettsia, wolbackia, oreintia
Rickettsiae spp
Survive in vascular endothelium
Anaplasma spp description
Gram negative, small coccoid-ellipsoid
Anaplasma spp list
A. marginale, centrale, ovis, bovis, platys, phagocytophilum
A. marginale
REPORTABLE, transmission with hard ticks (Ixodes), infects ruminants - Bovine anaplasmosis
Bovine anaplasmosis
A. marginale - undulating febrile disease - Long-term carriage.
When I say Bovine anaplasmosis, you say,
Anaplasma marginale!
A. marginale pathogenesis in bovine
Bovine anaplasmosis! Erythrocytes engulf bacteria–> multiplication & release of new –> indiscriminate erythrocyte removal by host’s macrophage system–> anemia, icterus, splenomegaly, hepatomegaly –> DESTRUCTION OF RBC!!
Anaplasma platys
Infectious canine cyclic thrombocytopenia - Cycles of 1-2 week interval -
Tick species that transmit Anaplasma platys
Rhiphicephalus & Dermacentor
Anaplasma phagocytophilum
Tick borne fever in ruminants, human, equine - Canine granulocytic anaplasmosis - Transmitted by rodents & ixodes (hard ticks)
What species causes canine granulocytic anaplasmosis?
A. phagocytophilum
What species causes Infectious canine cyclic thrombocytopenia?
A. platys
Rickettsiae - description
Small, gram negative, nonmotile (but hijacks actin in cells)
Rickettsiae pathogenesis
Enter endothelials –> escape phagosome & multiply in cytoplasm & nucleus
What disease is caused by Rickettsia rickettsia?
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
What causes Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever?
Rickettsia rickettsia
What does Rickettsia felis cause?
Typhus group
What disease does Coxiella burnetii cause?
Q fever