Biology:Rickettsia africae

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Short description: Species of bacterium

Rickettsia africae
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Rickettsiales
Family: Rickettsiaceae
Genus: Rickettsia
Species group: Spotted fever group
Species:
R. africae
Binomial name
Rickettsia africae
Kelly et al. 1996

Rickettsia africae is a species of Rickettsia.

It can cause African tick-bite fever.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Analysis of the Rickettsia africae genome reveals that virulence acquisition in Rickettsia species may be explained by genome reduction". BMC Genomics 10: 166. 2009. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-166. PMID 19379498. 

Wikidata ☰ Q7331930 entry




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