Name: Anaplasma ovis Lestoquard 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: o’vis. L. gen. fem. n. ovis, of the sheep

Gender: neuter

Type strain: no culture isolated

Effective publication: Lestoquard F. Deuxième note sur les Piroplasmoses du mouton en Algérie. L'anaplasmose: Anaplasma ovis nov. sp. Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique 1924; 17:784-787.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Belgium has been imported on 2024-02-05. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "animal pathogen - biological class of risk animal: 2". — The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Animal classification RG: 3 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 3". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "PV". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "t".
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 227 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 According to Yarza et al. (2013), an "un-sequenced orphan species where descriptions, illustrations or dead preserved material serve as the type. Obligate intracellular parasit. No formal proposal made for strain Idaho as a type strain.". Publication: Yarza P, Sproer C, Swiderski J, Mrotzek N, Spring S, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Lang E, et al. Sequencing orphan species initiative (SOS): Filling the gaps in the 16S rRNA gene sequence database for all species with validly published names. Syst Appl Microbiol 2013; 36:69-73.
  • 🧍 Since the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names, several strains have been isolated. According to Dumler et al. the type strain of Anaplasma ovis is the strain Idaho. Publication: Dumler JS, Rikihisa Y, Dasch GA. Genus I. Anaplasma Theiler 1910, 7AL emend. Dumler, Barbet, Bekker, Dasch, Palmer, Ray, Rikihisa and Rurangirwa 2001, 2157. In: Brenner DJ, Krieg NR, Staley JT, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 2 (The Proteobacteria), part C (The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria), Springer, New York, 2005, p. 117-125.

Parent taxon: Anaplasma Theiler 1910 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Lestoquard F. Deuxième note sur les Piroplasmoses du mouton en Algérie. L'anaplasmose: Anaplasma ovis nov. sp. Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique 1924; 17:784-787.

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