Definition of Rickettsia. Meaning of Rickettsia. Synonyms of Rickettsia

- Rickettsia is a genus of nonmotile, gram-negative, nonspore-forming, highly pleomorphic bacteria that may occur in the forms of cocci (0.1 μm in diameter)...
- Rickettsia parkeri (abbreviated R. parkeri) is a gram-negative intracellular bacterium. The organism is found in the Western Hemisphere and is transmitted...
- Rickettsia felis is a species of bacterium, the pathogen that causes cat-flea typhus in humans, also known as flea-borne spotted fever. Rickettsia felis...
- Rickettsia prowazekii is a species of gram-negative, obligate intracellular parasitic, aerobic bacilliform bacteria of class Alphaproteobacteria that is...
- Rickettsia sibirica is a species of Rickettsia. This bacterium is the etiologic agent of North Asian tick typhus, which is also known as Siberian tick...
- Rickettsia conorii is a Gram-negative, obligate intracellular bacterium of the genus Rickettsia that causes human disease called boutonneuse fever, Mediterranean...
- Rickettsia rickettsii is a Gram-negative, intracellular, cocco-bacillus bacterium that was first discovered in 1902. Having a reduced genome, the bacterium...
- Rickettsia akari is a species of Rickettsia which causes rickettsialpox. After a 1946 outbreak of a rickettsial-type disease at an apartment complex in...
- Rickettsia typhi is a small, aerobic, obligate intracellular, rod shaped gram negative bacterium. It belongs to the typhus group of the Rickettsia genus...
- 1935) Rake 1957 emend. Everett et al. 1999 Synonyms Rickettsia trachomae [sic] Busacca 1935 Rickettsia trachomatis (Busacca 1935) Foley and Parrot 1937 Chlamydozoon...