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Eperythrozoon coccoides is a minute organism of somewhat uncertain taxonomy, at present classified among the Protophyta1 (order, Rickettsiales; family, Bartonellaceae). It is indigenous to mice and induces in them a mild disease characterized by splenomegaly and general lymphadenopathy2. It is frequently present in transplantable tumours3 and it is possible that it is, in part, responsible for the splenomegaly which follows transplantation of such tumours. The pronounced synergism of E. coccoides with a variety of other infectious agents is now well known.
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STANSLY, P., NEILSON, C. Distinctive Behaviour of Eperythrozoon coccoides in Plasma and Spleen of Infected Mice. Nature 211, 1203–1204 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111203a0
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