Query: NC_016599:3434996 Owenweeksia hongkongensis DSM 17368 chromosome, complete genome Lineage: Owenweeksia hongkongensis; Owenweeksia; Cryomorphaceae; Flavobacteriales; Bacteroidetes; Bacteria General Information: Country: China; Isolation: Sea water (sand filtered); China, Hong Kong; Temp: Mesophile. Aerobic, Gram-negative, non-fermentative, rod-shaped, motile, orange-pigmented bacterium isolated from sea-water samples collected from Port Shelter, Hong Kong, China, in August 2002. It was isolated from a sea-water sample collected from the outlet of a tank storing sand-filtered sea water that was pumped from a depth of 5 m.
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General Information: This strain was isolated in 1989 in North Carolina, USA from a 2-year-old male dog. This organisms causes canine monocytic ehrlichiosis, which is a tick-born disease that causes severe morbidity in domesticated and wild dogs. The brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus, transfers the organism from its salivary glands to the animal when feeding. Persistence in the vacuole leads to replication and cell division and eventual release from the cell which leads to further spreading of the bacterium throughout the host. The end result is an increase in platelet count and anemia.