Rickettsia raoultii

Rickettsia raoultii
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Rickettsiales
Family: Rickettsiaceae
Genus: Rickettsia
Species: R. raoultii
Binomial name
Rickettsia raoultii
Mediannikov et al. 2008

Rickettsia raoultii is a tick-borne pathogenic spotted fever group Rickettsia species borne by Dermacentor ticks.[1]

References

  1. Oleg Mediannikov, Kotaro Matsumoto, Irina Samoylenko, Michel Drancourt, Veronique Roux, Elena Rydkina, Bernard Davoust, Irina Tarasevich, Philippe Brouqui & Pierre-Edouard Fournier (July 2008). "Rickettsia raoultii sp. nov., a spotted fever group rickettsia associated with Dermacentor ticks in Europe and Russia". International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology. 58 (Pt 7): 1635–1639. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64952-0. PMID 18599708.

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