Biology:Rickettsia heilongjiangensis

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Short description: Species of bacterium

Rickettsia heilongjiangensis
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Rickettsiales
Family: Rickettsiaceae
Genus: Rickettsia
Species group: Spotted fever group
Species:
R. heilongjiangensis
Binomial name
Rickettsia heilongjiangensis
Fournier et al., 2003

Rickettsia heilongjiangensis is a species of gram negative Alphaproteobacteria, within the spotted fever group, being carried by ticks.[1] It is pathogenic (causing rickettsiosis).[2][3]

References

  1. Fournier, P.-E.; Dumler, J. S.; Greub, G.; Zhang, J.; Wu, Y.; Raoult, D. (2003). "Gene Sequence-Based Criteria for Identification of New Rickettsia Isolates and Description of Rickettsia heilongjiangensis sp. nov.". Journal of Clinical Microbiology 41 (12): 5456–5465. doi:10.1128/JCM.41.12.5456-5465.2003. ISSN 0095-1137. PMID 14662925. 
  2. Ando, Shuji; Kurosawa, Masahiro; Sakata, Akiko; Fujita, Hiromi; Sakai, Katsurou; Sekine, Masao; Katsumi, Masanori; Saitou, Wakana et al. (2010). "HumanRickettsia heilongjiangensisInfection, Japan". Emerging Infectious Diseases 16 (8): 1306–1308. doi:10.3201/eid1608.100049. ISSN 1080-6040. PMID 20678332. 
  3. Mediannikov, Oleg Y.; Sidelnikov, Yuri; Ivanov, Leonid; Mokretsova, Eugenia; Fournier, Pierre-Edouard; Tarasevich, Irina; Raoult, Didier (2004). "Acute Tick-borne Rickettsiosis Caused byRickettsia sibiricain the Russian Far East". Emerging Infectious Diseases 10 (5): 810–817. doi:10.3201/eid1005.030437. ISSN 1080-6040. PMID 15200813. 

Further reading

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q16989255 entry