Rickettsia raoultii is a tick-borne pathogenic spotted fever group Rickettsia species borne by Dermacentor ticks.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Rickettsiales |
| Family: | Rickettsiaceae |
| Genus: | Rickettsia |
| Species group: | Spotted fever group |
| Species: | R. raoultii
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| Binomial name | |
| Rickettsia raoultii Mediannikov et al. 2008
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References
edit- ^ Oleg Mediannikov; Kotaro Matsumoto; Irina Samoylenko; Michel Drancourt; Véronique 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.
Further reading
edit- Karolina Switaj; Tomasz Chmielewski; Piotr Borkowski; Stanislawa Tylewska-Wierzbanowska & Maria Olszynska-Krowicka (2012). "Spotted fever rickettsiosis caused by Rickettsia raoultii--case report". Przeglad Epidemiologiczny. 66 (2): 347–350. PMID 23101229.
- Selmi, Marco; Martello, Elisa; Bertolotti, Luigi; Bisanzio, Donal; Tomassone, Laura (2009). "Rickettsia slovaca and Rickettsia raoultii in Dermacentor marginatus Ticks Collected on Wild Boars in Tuscany, Italy". Journal of Medical Entomology. 46 (6): 1490–1493. doi:10.1603/033.046.0636. ISSN 0022-2585. PMID 19960702.
- Selmi, Marco, et al. "Rickettsia slovaca and Rickettsia raoultii in Dermacentor marginatus ticks collected on wild boars in Tuscany, Italy." Journal of Medical Entomology 46.6 (2009): 1490–1493.
External links
edit- LPSN
- "Rickettsia raoultii" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- Type strain of Rickettsia raoultii at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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