The Piscirickettsiaceae are a family of Pseudomonadota. All species are aerobes found in water.George M. Garrity: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 2. Auflage. Springer, New York, 2005, Volume 2: The Proteobacteria, Part B: The Gammaproteobacteria The species Piscirickettsia salmonis is a fish pathogen and causes piscirickettsiosis in salmonid fishes.Martin Dworkin, Stanley Falkow, Eugene Rosenberg, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, Erko Stackebrandt: The Prokaryotes, A Handbook of the Biology of Bacteria. Volume 5: Proteobacteria: Alpha and Beta Subclasses It lives in cells of infected hosts and cannot be cultured on artificial media. Piscirickettsia salmonis is nonmotile, whereas the other five genera are motile by using a single flagellum.
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External links Piscirickettsiosis Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Piscirickettsiaceae J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature