Piscirickettsiaceae Explained

The Piscirickettsiaceae are a family of Pseudomonadota. All species are aerobes found in water.^[1] The species Piscirickettsia salmonis is a fish pathogen and causes piscirickettsiosis in salmonid fishes.^[2] It lives in cells of infected hosts and cannot be cultured on artificial media. Piscirickettsia salmonis is nonmotile, whereas the other five genera are motile by using a single flagellum.

External links

• Piscirickettsiosis Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
• Piscirickettsiaceae J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature

Notes and References

1. George M. Garrity: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 2. Auflage. Springer, New York, 2005, Volume 2: The Proteobacteria, Part B: The Gammaproteobacteria
2. 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