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PISCIRICKETTSIA SALMONIS
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Piscirickettsia |
| Species: | Piscirickettsia salmonis |
| Description: | In vitro replication is optimal between 15 and 18°C, is greatly retarded at temperatures above 20°C and below 1O°C, and does not occur at or above 25°C.The organism cannot be propagated in cell-free media. Pleomorphic, predominantly coccoid, ca. 0.5 to 1.5 μm in diameter,but also occurs as rings or pairs of curved rods.Gram negative, nonmotile. |
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| Source: | isolated in cell culture and identified as the cause of an epizootic disease of salmonid fish. |
| Pathogenicity: | The organism is a pathogen of salmonid fishes and replicates by binary fission within membrane-bound cytoplasmic vacuoles or inclusions in cells of susceptible fish hosts or in fish cell lines including from salmonid fishes and from nonsalmonid fishes. |
| Genbank: | NZ_CP011849.2 [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 3.18 |
| GC %: | 39.7 |
| Genes: | 3,455 |
| CDS Number: | 3,151 |
| Reference: | FRYER (J.L.), LANNAN (C.N.), GIOVANNONI (S.J.) and WOOD (N.D.): Piscirickettsia salmonis gen. nov., sp. nov., the causative agent of an epizootic disease in salmonid fishes. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1992, 42, 120-126. |
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