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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)...
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Rickettsia prowazekii is a
species of gram-negative,
obligate intracellular parasitic,
aerobic bacilliform bacteria of
class Alphaproteobacteria that is...
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Rickettsia parkeri (abbreviated R. parkeri) is a gram-negative
intracellular bacterium. The
organism is
found in the
Western Hemisphere and is transmitted...
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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...
- 1935) Rake 1957 emend.
Everett et al. 1999
Synonyms Rickettsia trachomae [sic]
Busacca 1935
Rickettsia trachomatis (Busacca 1935)
Foley and
Parrot 1937 Chlamydozoon...
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Rickettsia rickettsii is a Gram-negative, intracellular, cocco-bacillus
bacterium that was
first discovered in 1902.
Having a
reduced genome, the bacterium...
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Rickettsia africae is a
species of
Rickettsia. It can
cause African tick-bite fever.
Fournier PE, El
Karkouri K,
Leroy Q, et al. (2009). "Analysis of...
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Rickettsia conorii is a Gram-negative,
obligate intracellular bacterium of the
genus Rickettsia that
causes human disease called boutonneuse fever, Mediterranean...
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Rickettsia raoultii is a tick-borne
pathogenic spotted fever group Rickettsia species borne by
Dermacentor ticks. Oleg Mediannikov;
Kotaro Matsumoto;...
- by
specific types of
bacterial infection.
Epidemic typhus is
caused by
Rickettsia prowazekii spread by body lice,
scrub typhus is
caused by
Orientia tsutsugamushi...
