Rickettsia rickettsii
R. rickettsii is the causative agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. R. rickettsii is one of the most pathogenic Rickettsia ... The spread of R. rickettsii is likely due to the migration of humans and animals around the globe. However, R. rickettsii tends ... Rickettsia rickettsii (abbreviated as R. rickettsii) is a Gram-negative, intracellular, coccobacillus bacterium that is around ... Female hosts can pass the R. rickettsii gene to their offspring, giving R. rickettsii bacteria yet another way to infect hosts ...
Virus
Ammerman NC, Beier-Sexton M, Azad AF (November 2008). "Laboratory maintenance of Rickettsia rickettsii". Current Protocols in ...
Canine vector-borne disease
Rickettsia rickettsii causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Rickettsia conorii causes Mediterranean spotted fever. Mosquitoes ( ...
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
These species are likely to play only a minor role in the ecology of R. rickettsii.[citation needed] Rickettsia rickettsii can ... rickettsii in a feeding time as short as 2 hours. In general, about 1-3% of the tick population carries R. rickettsii, even in ... rickettsii to her eggs in a process called transovarial transmission. Ticks can also become infected with R. rickettsii while ... Because R. rickettsii infects the cells lining blood vessels throughout the body, severe manifestations of this disease may ...
Winston Price
Earlier in his career, he had detailed how ticks of the genus Dermacentor were the main vectors of Rickettsia rickettsii that ... He co-authored a paper that reported that Rickettsia rickettsii could be made avirulent by treatment with PABA. In 1953, when a ... In 1954, he detailed how ticks of the genus Dermacentor, not haemaphysalis, were the main vectors of Rickettsia rickettsii that ... Gilford, J. H.; Price, Winston H. (1955). "virulent-avirulent conversions of Rickettsia Rickettsii in vitro" (PDF). Proceedings ...
Rickettsiaceae
Rickettsia rickettsii is considered the prototypical infectious organism in the group. Comparative genomic analysis has ...
Howard Taylor Ricketts
The pathogen causing Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Rickettsia rickettsii was named after him. After this eponymous genus, the ...
Slime layer
"External layers of Rickettsia prowazekii and Rickettsia rickettsii: occurrence of a slime layer". Infection and Immunity. 22 (1 ...
List of dog diseases
It is caused by Rickettsia rickettsii and spread by ticks of the genus Dermacentor. Signs are similar to human disease, ...
Orientia tsutsugamushi
Denison, A.M.; Amin, B.D.; Nicholson, W.L.; Paddock, C.D. (2014). "Detection of Rickettsia rickettsii, Rickettsia parkeri, and ... 1978). "Comparative ultrastructural study on the cell envelopes of Rickettsia prowazekii, Rickettsia rickettsii, and Rickettsia ...
Cat predation on wildlife
Diseases capable of being transmitted through ticks include Theileria Orientalis, and R. rickettsii, hemorrhagic fever. Some of ...
The Log from the Sea of Cortez
Oskar Carlgren [de; sv] at the Lund University's Department of Zoology in Sweden: Palythoa rickettsii, Isometridium rickettsi, ...
Rickettsia peacockii
"Genome sequence of the endosymbiont Rickettsia peacockii and comparison with virulent Rickettsia rickettsii: identification of ...
Transovarial transmission
For example, Rickettsia rickettsii, carried within ticks, is passed on from parent to offspring tick by transovarial ...
Rickettsia parkeri
... rickettsii. Although both R. parkeri and R. rickettsii caused fever, rash, myalgia, and headache, R. parkeri caused eschars and ... Genetically, its close relatives include R. africae, R. sibirica, R. conorii, R. rickettsii, R. peacockii, and R. honei. The ... Furthermore, the percentage of patients hospitalized was lower for R. parkeri than for R. rickettsii (33% vs 78%), and R. ... parkeri led to no deaths while R. rickettsii led to death in 7% of cases. A 2021 systematic review of 32 confirmed and 45 ...
Haemaphysalis leporispalustris
Strains of Rickettsia rickettsii, the disease aften of Rocky Mountain spotted fever have been found in the rabbit tick. The ... A Brazilian strain of the Rickettsia rickettsii was also found recently in Rio de Janeiro in ticks found on wild rabbits as ... 1985). "Isolation and identification of Rickettsia rickettsii from the rabbit tick (Haemaphysalis leporispalustris) in the ... 2009). "Experimental Infection of the Rabbit Tick, Haemaphysalis Leporispalustris, with the Bacterium Rickettsia Rickettsii, ...
Joshua Shaevitz
There, he focused on the motility of bacteria, including the actin-propelled Rickettsia rickettsii, Myxococcus xanthus, and the ...
Biological warfare
... especially Rickettsia prowazekii and Rickettsia rickettsii), Shigella spp., Vibrio cholerae, and Yersinia pestis. Many viral ...
Rhipicephalus sanguineus
It can also transmit Rickettsia rickettsii, the bacteria responsible for causing Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans in the ... Babesia canis Coxiella burnetii Ehrlichia canis Hepatozoon canis Mycoplasma haemocanis Rickettsia conorii Rickettsia rickettsii ...
Weil-Felix test
The spotted fever group rickettsiae (R. rickettsii, R. africae, R. japonica, etc.) react with P. vulgaris OX2 and OX19, to ...
Pacific Coast tick fever
... typing of isolates of Rickettsia rickettsii." Georgia Research Alliance Collaboration Roundtable. February 26, 2010. Poster ...
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
... which include Lyme disease bacterial variants Borrelia burgdorferi and Rickettsia rickettsii. A number of scientists who have ...
Rickettsia
... rickettsii (Western Hemisphere) Rocky Mountain spotted fever Rickettsia akari (USA, former Soviet Union) ...
Meningoencephalitis
... such as Rickettsia rickettsii (agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF)), Rickettsia conorii, Rickettsia prowazekii (agent ...
Findlay, Ohio
Rickettsia rickettsii, which was also named after him Ben Roethlisberger, professional football player in the NFL for the ...
Dermacentor
... species are vectors of many pathogens, including Rickettsia rickettsii, which causes the disease Rocky Mountain ...
Biosafety level
Rickettsia rickettsii, several species of Brucella, chikungunya, yellow fever virus, West Nile virus, Yersinia pestis, and SARS ...
Euryoryzomys russatus
A study on Rickettsia rickettsii, Brazilian Spotted-fever has shown E. russatus to be a host for the tick species Amblyomma ...
List of clinically important bacteria
... aeruginosa Rhizobium radiobacter Rickettsia Rickettsia prowazekii Rickettsia psittaci Rickettsia quintana Rickettsia rickettsii ...
Select agent
Rickettsia prowazekii Rickettsia rickettsii Yersinia pestis* Coronavirus: SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) Encephalitis ...