Rickettsia prowazekii

Rank: Species

Lineage: Bacteria;Proteobacteria;Alphaproteobacteria;Rickettsiales;Rickettsiaceae;Rickettsia;Rickettsia prowazekii

Description: This species is the causal agent of typhus. The bacteria are transmitted via an insect, usually a tick, to a host organism, in this case humans, where they target endothelial cells and sometimes macrophages. They attach via an adhesin, rickettsial outer membrane protein A, and are internalized where they persist as cytoplasmically free organisms. Transovarial transmission (from mother to offspring) occurs in the invertebrate host. More >> Less >>

Reference Material:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/?term=Rickettsia%20prowazekii

Name	Rank	Genomes	Info
Rickettsia	Genus	5
Rickettsia prowazekii	Species	1

Name: Rickettsia

Rank: Genus

Lineage:
Bacteria;Proteobacteria;Alphaproteobacteria;Rickettsiales;Rickettsiaceae;Rickettsia

Description:
Rickettsia is a genus of nonmotile, gram-negative, nonspore-forming, highly pleomorphic bacteria that can be present as cocci, rods, or thread-like. The term rickettsia, named after Howard Taylor Ricketts, is often used interchangeably for any member of the Rickettsiales. Being obligate intracellular parasites, the Rickettsia survival depends on entry, growth, and replication within the cytoplasm of eukaryotic host cells (typically endothelial cells). Rickettsia cannot live in artificial nutrient environments and is grown either in tissue or embryo cultures; typically, chicken embryos are used, following a method developed by Ernest William Goodpasture and his colleagues at Vanderbilt University in the early 1930s.

Reference Material:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickettsia

Genome Status
- Complete
Isolation Country
- Spain
Disease
- Epidemic typhus
- Mediterranean spotted fever
Collection Year
- -
Completion Year
- -

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