Cells within cells: Rickettsiales and the obligate intracellular bacterial lifestyle

J Salje - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
The Rickettsiales are a group of obligate intracellular vector-borne Gram-negative bacteria
that include many organisms of clinical and agricultural importance, including Anaplasma …

Human ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis

N Ismail, KC Bloch, JW McBride - Clinics in laboratory …, 2010 - labmed.theclinics.com
Human ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis are acute febrile tick-borne diseases caused by
various members of the genera Ehrlichia and Anaplasma (Anaplasmataceae). Human …

Tick-borne emerging infections: ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis

N Ismail, JW McBride - Clinics in laboratory medicine, 2017 - labmed.theclinics.com
Human ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis are acute febrile tick-borne diseases caused by
various members from the genera Ehrlichia and Anaplasma. 1–5 Ehrlichia chaffeensis is the …

Mechanisms of obligatory intracellular infection with Anaplasma phagocytophilum

Y Rikihisa - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Anaplasma phagocytophilum persists in nature by cycling between mammals and ticks.
Human infection by the bite of an infected tick leads to a potentially fatal emerging disease …

Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Ehrlichia chaffeensis: subversive manipulators of host cells

Y Rikihisa - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2010 - nature.com
Anaplasma spp. and Ehrlichia spp. cause several emerging human infectious diseases.
Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Ehrlichia chaffeensis are transmitted between mammals …

Lipid hijacking: a unifying theme in vector-borne diseases

AJ O'Neal, LR Butler, A Rolandelli, SD Gilk, JHF Pedra - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Vector-borne illnesses comprise a significant portion of human maladies, representing 17%
of global infections. Transmission of vector-borne pathogens to mammals primarily occurs …

Competition for Amino Acids Between Wolbachia and the Mosquito Host, Aedes aegypti

EP Caragata, E Rancès, SL O'Neill, EA McGraw - Microbial ecology, 2014 - Springer
The endosymbiont Wolbachia represents a promising method of dengue control, as it
reduces the ability of the primary vector, the mosquito Aedes aegypti, to transmit viruses …

The obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen Anaplasma phagocytophilum exploits host cell multivesicular body biogenesis for proliferation and dissemination

CB Read, MCH Lind, TJ Chiarelli, JR Izac, HE Adcox… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Anaplasma phagocytophilum is the etiologic agent of the emerging infection, granulocytic
anaplasmosis. This obligate intracellular bacterium lives in a host cell-derived vacuole that …

Manipulation of host cholesterol by obligate intracellular bacteria

D Samanta, M Mulye, TM Clemente… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Cholesterol is a multifunctional lipid that plays important metabolic and structural roles in the
eukaryotic cell. Despite having diverse lifestyles, the obligate intracellular bacterial …

Idiosyncratic biogenesis of intracellular pathogens-containing vacuoles

B Vaughn, Y Abu Kwaik - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
While most bacterial species taken up by macrophages are degraded through processing of
the bacteria-containing vacuole through the endosomal-lysosomal degradation pathway …