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Piscirickettsiaceae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
Order: | Thiotrichales |
Family: | Piscirickettsiaceae Fryer and Lannan 2005 |
Genera | |
Cycloclasticus[1] |
The Piscirickettsiaceae are a family of Pseudomonadota. All species are aerobes found in water.[2] The species Piscirickettsia salmonis is a fish pathogen and causes piscirickettsiosis in salmonid fishes.[3] It lives in cells of infected hosts and cannot be cultured on artificial media.[2] Piscirickettsia salmonis is nonmotile, whereas the other five genera are motile by using a single flagellum.[2]