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

Pronunciation, gender: O-wis, 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 (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

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". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 257 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
  • 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the species itself.
  • 🧍 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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