Rickettsiales
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Overview
- Cause systemic diseases in animals
- Usually use arthropod vectors
Characteristics
- Non-motile, pleomorphic Gram-negative organisms
- Obligate intracellular pathogens
- Require live cells for culture such as tissue culture cells or embryonated eggs
- Require Romanowsky stains
- Host and cell type specificity