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The genus Ehrlichia consists of tick-transmitted bacteria that infect leukocytes and endothelial cells in mammals and different tissues in ticks. Ehrlichiosis is considered an emerging infectious disease in both humans and animals. Bovine ehrlichiosis in the Americas is caused by an obligate intracellular organism of the genus Ehrlichia closely related to Ehrlichia canis, the etiologic agent of canine monocytic ehrlichiosis (CME). The proposed name for this species is Ehrlichia minasensis (Cabezas-Cruz et al. 2016).

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de Aguiar, D.M. (2017). Ehrlichiosis. In: Bayry, J. (eds) Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases of Livestock. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47426-7_17

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