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