Rickettsia_africae

<i>Rickettsia africae</i>

Rickettsia africae

Species of bacterium

Rickettsia africae is a species of Rickettsia.

Quick Facts Rickettsia africae, Scientific classification ...

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

References

  1. [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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