Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.993

Name

Ehrlichia chaffeensis Anderson et al. 1992 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

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

Arkansas^T (=ATCC CRL-10679)

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 chaffeensis Anderson et al. 1992 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.17421	Sapulpa

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Ehrlichia chaffeensis Anderson et al. 1992 emend. Hördt et al. 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.993.

Source File

10.1601/tx.993.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 25, 2020.

References

Anderson BE, Dawson JE, Jones DC, Wilson KH. Ehrlichia chaffeensis, a new species associated with human ehrlichiosis. J Clin Microbiol 1991; 29:2838-2842. [PubMed].