Blanco José Ramón, Jado Isabel, Marín Mercedes, Sanfeliu Isabel, Portillo Aránzazu, Anda Pedro, Pons Immaculada, Oteo José Antonio
Area de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Centro de Rickettsiosis y Enfermedades Transmitidas por Artrópodos Vectores, Hospital San Pedro CIBIR, Logroño, Spain.
Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2008 Nov;26(9):573-80. doi: 10.1157/13128275.
Ehrlichia/Anaplasma, Bartonella, Rickettsia and Tropheryma whipplei (formerly called whippelii) are fastidious bacterial organisms, considered the causative agents of potentially severe emerging and re-emerging diseases with repercussions on public health. The recent availability of advanced molecular biology and cell culture techniques has led to the implication of many of these species in human pathologies. These issues are extensively covered in number 27 of the SEIMC microbiological procedure: Diagnóstico microbiológico de las infecciones por patógenos bacterianos emergentes: Anaplasma, Bartonella, Rickettsia y Tropheryma whippelii (Microbiological diagnosis of Anaplasma, Bartonella, Rickettsia and Tropheryma whippelii infections) (2nd ed., 2007) (www.seimc.org/documentos/protocolos/microbiologia/).
埃立克体属/无形体属、巴尔通体属、立克次体属以及惠普尔嗜组织菌（原称惠普尔氏菌）是苛求性细菌生物，被认为是对公共卫生有影响的潜在严重新出现和再出现疾病的病原体。最近先进分子生物学和细胞培养技术的出现，已使其中许多菌种与人类病理学关联起来。这些问题在西班牙传染病和临床微生物学会（SEIMC）微生物学程序第27号文件中得到广泛阐述：《新兴细菌病原体感染的微生物诊断：无形体属、巴尔通体属、立克次体属和惠普尔嗜组织菌》（第2版，2007年）（www.seimc.org/documentos/protocolos/microbiologia/）。
