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 typhi is a small, aerobic, obligate intracellular, rod shaped gram negative bacterium. It belongs to the typhus group of the Rickettsia genus...
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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 prowazekii is a species of gram-negative, alphaproteobacteria, obligate intracellular parasitic, aerobic bacillus bacteria that is the etiologic...
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Rickettsia rickettsii is a Gram-negative, intracellular, coccobacillus bacterium that was first discovered in 1902. Having a reduced genome, the bacterium...
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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 asiatica is a tick-borne pathogenic species borne by Ixodes ovatus. The type strain of Rickettsia asiatica sp. nov. is IO-1T (=CSUR R2T). Fujita...
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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...
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Coxiella burnetii (redirect from Rickettsia diaporica)
causative agent of Q fever. The genus Coxiella is morphologically similar to Rickettsia, but with a variety of genetic and physiological differences. C. burnetii...
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hearing loss or loss of part of an arm or leg. The disease is caused by Rickettsia rickettsii, a type of bacterium that is primarily spread to humans by...
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Rickettsia akari is a species of Rickettsia which causes rickettsialpox. After a 1946 outbreak of a rickettsial-type disease at an apartment complex in...
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Rickettsia helvetica, previously known as the Swiss agent, is a bacterium found in Dermacentor reticulatus and other ticks, which has been implicated as...
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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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Africa, as well as Central and South America. The causative organism is Rickettsia prowazekii, transmitted by the human body louse (Pediculus humanus corporis)...
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by specific types of bacterial infection. Epidemic typhus is caused by Rickettsia prowazekii spread by body lice, scrub typhus is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi...
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Rickettsia raoultii is a tick-borne pathogenic spotted fever group Rickettsia species borne by Dermacentor ticks. Oleg Mediannikov; Kotaro Matsumoto;...
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a mite-borne infectious illness caused by bacteria of the genus Rickettsia (Rickettsia akari). Physician Robert Huebner and self-trained entomologist Charles...
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Rickettsia japonica is a species of Rickettsia. It can cause Japanese spotted fever. Hanaoka N, Matsutani M, Kawabata H, et al. (December 2009). "Diagnostic...
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Rickettsia heilongjiangensis is a species of gram negative Alphaproteobacteria, within the spotted fever group, being carried by ticks. It is pathogenic...
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Chlamydia trachomatis (redirect from Rickettsia trachomae)
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 peacockii is a species of gram negative Alphaproteobacteria of the spotted fever group, identified from Rocky Mountain wood ticks (Dermacentor...
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Rickettsia honei is a species of Rickettsia. It can cause Flinders Island spotted fever. Stenos J, Roux V, Walker D, Raoult D (October 1998). "Rickettsia...
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Rickettsia aeschlimannii infection is a condition characterized by a rash of maculopapules. Tick-borne lymphadenopathy American tick bite fever List of...
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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...
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Rickettsia monacensis is a tick-borne (Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes nipponensis) spotted fever group Rickettsia species. Shin, Sun-Hye; Seo, Hyun-Ji; Choi...
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Rickettsia massiliae is a tick-borne pathogenic spotted fever group Rickettsia species. L. Beati & D. Raoult (October 1993). "Rickettsia massiliae sp....
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Rickettsia australis is a bacterium that causes a medical condition called Queensland tick typhus. The probable vectors are the tick species, Ixodes holocyclus...
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from several Rickettsia species, such as Rickettsia rickettsii (agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF)), Rickettsia conorii, Rickettsia prowazekii...
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Tick-borne Rickettsia rickettsii Rocky Mountain spotted fever Rickettsia conorii Boutonneuse fever Rickettsia japonica Japanese spotted fever Rickettsia sibirica...
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modern day S. Typhi DNA were detected, whereas Yersinia pestis (plague), Rickettsia prowazekii (typhus), Mycobacterium tuberculosis, cowpox virus, and Bartonella...
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