Piscirickettsiaceae
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The Piscirickettsiaceae are a family of Pseudomonadota. All species are aerobes found in water.<ref name=BergeyGamma>George M. Garrity: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 2. Auflage. Springer, New York, 2005, Volume 2: The Proteobacteria, Part B: The Gammaproteobacteria</ref> The species Piscirickettsia salmonis is a fish pathogen and causes piscirickettsiosis in salmonid fishes.<ref>Martin Dworkin, Stanley Falkow, Eugene Rosenberg, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, Erko Stackebrandt: The Prokaryotes, A Handbook of the Biology of Bacteria. Volume 5: Proteobacteria: Alpha and Beta Subclasses Template:ISBN</ref> It lives in cells of infected hosts and cannot be cultured on artificial media.<ref name=BergeyGamma /> Piscirickettsia salmonis is nonmotile, whereas the other five genera are motile by using a single flagellum.<ref name=BergeyGamma />
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External links
- Piscirickettsiosis Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- Piscirickettsiaceae J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature