Rickettsia africae

Rickettsia africae
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Proteobacteria
Class:
Alphaproteobacteria
Subclass:
Rickettsidae
Order:
Rickettsiales
Family:
Rickettsiaceae
Genus:
Rickettsia
Species:
R. africae
Binomial name
Rickettsia africae

Rickettsia africae is a species of Rickettsia.

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

References
  1. 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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