Eperythrozoon

Eperythrozoon
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Mycoplasmatota
Class:	Mollicutes
Order:	Mycoplasmoidales
Family:	Mycoplasmoidaceae
Genus:	; Schilling 1928 (Approved Lists 1980)
Synonyms
	Heterotypic Haemobartonella Tyzzer and Weinman 1939 (Approved Lists 1980);

Eperythrozoon is a genus of bacteria in the family Mycoplasmoidaceae. Members of this family live inside red blood cells and are largely unculturable. As a result, many species are Candidatus. Under the old understanding of this genus as a phylogenetically divergent group under Mycoplasma, the included bacteria are also known as hemoplasmas or hemotrophic mycoplasmas.^[1]

^ Gupta, R.S.; Sawnani, S.; Adeolu, M.; Alnajar, S.; Oren, A. (2018). "Phylogenetic framework for the phylum Tenericutes based on genome sequence data: proposal for the creation of a new order Mycoplasmoidales ord. nov., containing two new families Mycoplasmoidaceae fam. nov. and Metamycoplasmataceae fam. nov. harbouring Eperythrozoon, Ureaplasma and five novel genera". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 111 (9): 1583–1630. doi:10.1007/s10482-018-1047-3. PMID 29556819. S2CID 254226604.

[Gupta18-1] Gupta, R.S.; Sawnani, S.; Adeolu, M.; Alnajar, S.; Oren, A. (2018). "Phylogenetic framework for the phylum Tenericutes based on genome sequence data: proposal for the creation of a new order Mycoplasmoidales ord. nov., containing two new families Mycoplasmoidaceae fam. nov. and Metamycoplasmataceae fam. nov. harbouring Eperythrozoon, Ureaplasma and five novel genera". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 111 (9): 1583–1630. doi:10.1007/s10482-018-1047-3. PMID 29556819. S2CID 254226604.

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