-Like Infection in Goats, Beijing, China.

As one of the important tick-borne zoonotic pathogens, has both veterinary and public health significance. Here, we performed a survey of infection in the goats from a farm in Beijing, China, and found 44.6% (41/92) were infected with , and 22.8% (21/92) were infected with sp. This sp. bacterium was close to a recently emerging strain based on and gene phylogenetic analysis. As to further understand the characteristics of sp., we raised a couple of positive goats ( = 2) in the laboratory with tick-free settings. We observed inappetence, vomiting, high fever, and weakness of limbs in the goat's offspring ( = 3). In addition, the blood samples from all offspring were all positive of this spp. We did not see any intracellular morulae in neutrophils, monocytes, and erythrocytes, but we identified some in the platelets of the blood smears from the positive goats by light microscopy. We named it like and suggested it may infect platelets and be transmitted vertically through the placenta of goats. These findings deserve further evaluation.