Rickettsia africae
Rickettsia africae is a species of Rickettsia.
| Rickettsia africae | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
It can cause African tick-bite fever.[1]
References
- Fournier PE, El Karkouri K, Leroy Q, et al. (2009). "Analysis of the Rickettsia africae genome reveals that virulence acquisition in Rickettsia species may be explained by genome reduction". BMC Genomics. 10: 166. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-166. PMC 2694212. PMID 19379498.
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