Complete Genome Sequence of Ehrlichia mineirensis, a Novel Organism Closely Related to Ehrlichia canis with a New Host Association

Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz; Erich Zweygarth; Marzena Broniszweska; Lygia M F Passos; Múcio Flávio Barbosa Ribeiro; Marina Manrique; Raquel Tobes; José de la Fuente

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01450-14

Complete Genome Sequence of Ehrlichia mineirensis, a Novel Organism Closely Related to Ehrlichia canis with a New Host Association

Genome Announc. 2015 Jan 22;3(1):e01450-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01450-14.

Authors

Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz¹, Erich Zweygarth, Marzena Broniszweska², Lygia M F Passos³, Múcio Flávio Barbosa Ribeiro⁴, Marina Manrique⁵, Raquel Tobes⁵, José de la Fuente⁶

Affiliations

¹ Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille (CIIL), INSERM, CNRS UMR, Université de Lille U1019 8204, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France.
² Comparative Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
³ Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva, Escola de Veterinária-UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
⁴ Departamento de Parasitologia, ICB-UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁵ Oh No Sequences! Research Group, Era7 Bioinformatics, Granada, Spain.
⁶ jose_delafuente@yahoo.com.

Abstract

We report here the complete genome sequencing of Ehrlichia mineirensis, an Ehrlichia organism that was isolated from the hemolymph of Rhipicephalus microplus-engorged females. E. mineirensis is the best characterized Ehrlichia isolate from a novel cattle-related clade closely related to the monocytotropic pathogen E. canis.