Anaplasma

Anaplasma
Anaplasma centrale in Giemsa-stained cattle peripheral blood smear
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Rickettsiales
Family: Ehrlichiaceae
Genus: Anaplasma
Theiler 1910[1]
Type species
Anaplasma marginale[1]
Species

A. bovis[1]
A. caudatum[1]
A. centrale[1]
A. marginale[1]
A. ovis[1]
A. phagocytophilum[1]
A. platys[1]

Anaplasma is a genus of gram-negative bacteria of the alphaproteobacterial order Rickettsiales, family Anaplasmataceae.

Anaplasma species reside in host blood cells and lead to the disease anaplasmosis. The disease most commonly occurs in areas where competent tick vectors are indigenous, including tropical and semitropical areas of the world for intraerythrocytic Anaplasma spp.[2]

Anaplasma species are biologically transmitted by Ixodes deer-tick vectors, and the prototypical species, A. marginale, can be mechanically transmitted by biting flies and iatrogenically with blood-contaminated instruments.[2] One of the major consequences of infection of bovine red blood cells by A. marginale is the development of nonhaemolytic anaemia, thus the absence of hemoglobinuria, which allows clinical differentiation from another major tick-borne disease, bovine babesiosis, caused by Babesia bigemina.[2]

Species of veterinary interest include:

The Anaplasma sparouinense species is responsible for a rare zoonosis, the Sparouine anaplasmosis, detected only in French Guiana, South America.[3] This disease was described from a clandestine gold miner working deep in rainforest. Infection of his red blood cells led to a severe deterioration of his health and required his hospitalization. Molecular typing showed that Anaplasma sparouinense is distinct to all known species and more genetically related to recently described Anaplasma species causing infections in rainforest wild fauna of Brazil.[3]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Parte, A.C. "Anaplasma". LPSN.
  2. ^ a b c d Anaplasmas reviewed and published by WikiVet, accessed 10 October 2011.
  3. ^ a b Duron, Olivier; Koual, Rachid; Musset, Lise; Buysse, Marie; Lambert, Yann; Jaulhac, Benoît; Blanchet, Denis; Alsibai, Kinan Drak; Lazrek, Yassamine; Epelboin, Loïc; Deshuillers, Pierre (2022). "Novel Chronic Anaplasmosis in Splenectomized Patient, Amazon Rainforest - Volume 28, Number 8—August 2022 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 28 (8): 1673–1676. doi:10.3201/eid2808.212425. PMC 9328922. PMID 35876693.