TY - JOUR
AU - Pierlé, Sebastián Aguilar
AU - Morales, Cirani Obregón
AU - Martínez, Leonardo Perea
AU - Ceballos, Nidia Aréchiga
AU - Rivero, Juan José Pérez
AU - Díaz, Osvaldo López
AU - Brayton, Kelly
AU - Setién, Alvaro Aguilar
T1 - Novel Waddlia Intracellular Bacterium in Artibeus intermedius Fruit Bats, Mexico
T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal
PY - 2015
VL - 21
IS - 12
SP - 2161
SN - 1080-6059
AB - An intracellular bacterium was isolated from fruit bats (Artibeus intermedius) in Cocoyoc, Mexico. The bacterium caused severe lesions in the lungs and spleens of bats and intracytoplasmic vacuoles in cell cultures. Sequence analyses showed it is related to Waddlia spp. (order Chlamydiales). We propose to call this bacterium Waddlia cocoyoc.
KW - Chlamydiales
KW - infectious disease
KW - Waddlia cocoyoc
KW - Chlamydia-like organisms
KW - bacteria
KW - fruit bat
KW - Artibeus intermedius
KW - frugivorous
KW - Mexico
DO - 10.3201/eid2112.150002
UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/12/15-0002_article
ER - End of Reference