| the morphological features of aegyptianella bacterifera: an intraerythrocytic rickettsia of frogs from corsica. | study of ultrathin sections and freeze-fracture replicas of erythrocytes containing aegyptianella bacterifera (rickettsiales; anaplasmataceae) revealed that the organisms develop within a membrane bound vacuole in the erythrocyte cytoplasm. the organisms divide by binary fission to produce about 12 rickettsiae in a mature inclusion. the organisms have gram-negative cell envelopes. the distribution of intramembranous particles within the outer and plasma membranes of a. bacterifera is similar to ... | 1989 | 2788228 |