... Taxon Overview at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute NIAID Biodefense Research Agenda for Category B and C ... Rickettsia prowazekii is a species of gram-negative, alphaproteobacteria, obligate intracellular parasitic, aerobic bacillus ... 1998). "The genome sequence of Rickettsia prowazekii and the origin of mitochondria". Nature. 396 (6707): 133-40. Bibcode: ... In North America, the main reservoir for R. prowazekii is the flying squirrel. R. prowazekii is often surrounded by a protein ...

Epidemic typhus is caused by Rickettsia prowazekii spread by body lice, scrub typhus is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi spread ... "Department of Agriculture , Typhus Fever - Rickettsia prowazekii". www.nj.gov. Retrieved 2023-09-14. Matossian RM, Thaddeus J, ... by chiggers, and murine typhus is caused by Rickettsia typhi spread by fleas. Vaccines have been developed, but none are ...

September 2001). "Mechanisms of evolution in Rickettsia conorii and R. prowazekii". Science. 293 (5537): 2093-8. Bibcode: ... Rickettsia conorii is a Gram-negative, obligate intracellular bacterium of the genus Rickettsia that causes human disease ... Examples include Rickettsia for alpha proteobacteria, T. whipplei for Actinobacteria, Mycoplasma for Firmicutes (the low G+C ... Yu, XJ; Walker, DH (2005). "Genus I. Rickettsia da Rocha-Lima 1916, 567AL". In Brenner, DJ; Krieg, NR; Staley, JT; et al. (eds ...

One typhus vaccine consisted of formaldehyde-inactivated Rickettsia prowazekii. Two doses were injected subcutaneously four ...

In Rickettsia prowazekii, as with other small genome bacteria, this mutualistic endosymbiont has experienced a vast reduction ... Common examples of species with reduced genomes include Buchnera aphidicola, Rickettsia prowazekii, and Mycobacterium leprae. ... "The genome sequence of Rickettsia prowazekii and the origin of mitochondria". Nature. 396 (6707): 133-140. Bibcode:1998Natur. ... Andersson, J. O.; Andersson, S. G. (1999-09-01). "Genome degradation is an ongoing process in Rickettsia". Molecular Biology ...

"The genome sequence of Rickettsia prowazekii and the origin of mitochondria". Nature. 396 (6707): 133-140. Bibcode:1998Natur. ... A bacterial cell related to today's Rickettsia, which had evolved to metabolize oxygen, entered a larger prokaryotic cell, ...

Epidemic typhus is caused by the bacteria Rickettsia Prowazekii; it comes from lice. Murine typhus is caused by the Rickettsia ... Queensland tick typhus is caused by the Rickettsia Australis bacteria, from ticks.[citation needed] During Napoleon's retreat ...

Rickettsia prowazekii, the causative agent of epidemic typhus. In her later career, her research continued to explore bacteria ... which reports the whole genome sequence of the intracellular parasite Rickettsia prowazekii". 2004 - Member of EMBO. 2005 - ... "The genome sequence of Rickettsia prowazekii and the origin of mitochondria". Nature. 396 (6707): 133-40. Bibcode:1998Natur.396 ...

1998). "The genome sequence of Rickettsia prowazekii and the origin of mitochondria". Nature. 396 (6707): 133-40. Bibcode: ... 2004). "Complete genome sequence of Rickettsia typhi and comparison with sequences of other rickettsiae". J Bacteriol. 186 (17 ... 2005). "The genome sequence of Rickettsia felis identifies the first putative conjugative plasmid in an obligate intracellular ... 2000). "Selfish DNA in protein-coding genes of Rickettsia". Science. 290 (5490): 347-50. Bibcode:2000Sci...290..347O. doi: ...

Silverman, D J; Wisseman, C L; Waddell, A D; Jones, M (1978). "External layers of Rickettsia prowazekii and Rickettsia ...

Unknown pathogenicity Rickettsia prowazekii (worldwide) Epidemic typhus, recrudescent typhus, and sporadic typhus Rickettsia ... Properly, Rickettsia is the name of a single genus, but the informal term "rickettsia", plural "rickettsias", usually not ... ATP production in Rickettsia is the same as that in mitochondria. In fact, of all the microbes known, the Rickettsia is ... November 1998). "The genome sequence of Rickettsia prowazekii and the origin of mitochondria". Nature. 396 (6707): 133-140. ...

... is a delayed relapse of epidemic typhus, caused by Rickettsia prowazekii. After a patient contracts ... epidemic typhus from the fecal matter of an infected louse (Pediculus humanus), the rickettsia can remain latent and reactivate ...

Apart from humans, flying squirrels are the only currently known reservoir for Rickettsia prowazekii. Brill-Zinsser disease ...

Rocha Lima named the infectious agent of epidemic typhus - Rickettsia prowazekii - after his colleague. Die pathogenen ...

"A murine model of infection with Rickettsia prowazekii: implications for pathogenesis of epidemic typhus". Microbes and ... created the Rickettsia Unit of the university. From 2008 to 2022, Raoult was the director of the Unité de Recherche sur les ...

It belongs to the typhus group of the Rickettsia genus, along with R. prowazekii. R. typhi has an uncertain history, as it may ... The discovery of R. typhi lead to the creation of the typhus group Rickettsia, which contains R. typhi and R. prowazekii. ... Rickettsia species are generally broken into 3 groups, the spotted fever group, typhus group and scrub typhus group. Rickettsia ... prowazekii by 12000 base pairs inserted into R. prowazekii. There are various methods to differentiate among the typhus group ...

Müller M, Martin W (May 1999). "The genome of Rickettsia prowazekii and some thoughts on the origin of mitochondria and ... The proto-mitochondrion was probably closely related to Rickettsia. However, the exact relationship of the ancestor of ... Emelyanov VV (February 2001). "Rickettsiaceae, rickettsia-like endosymbionts, and the origin of mitochondria". Bioscience ...

For example, the human body louse transmits the bacterium Rickettsia prowazekii which causes epidemic typhus. Although ... is transmitted by ticks and members of the bacterial genus Rickettsia are transmitted by lice. ...

Germany used live Rickettsia prowazekii to test multiple possible vaccines' capabilities. They gave live Rickettsia prowazekii ... Germans tried several times to use this technique of growing Rickettsia prowazekii but no effort was pushed very far. The last ... The first attempt at a killed vaccine was developed by Germany, using the Rickettsia prowazekii found in louse feces. The ... In 1916, Henrique da Rocha Lima proved that the bacterium Rickettsia prowazekii was the agent responsible for typhus; he named ...

1967 Apr-Jun;19(2):353-8. (Article in Portuguese) Falcão, E.C. Henrique Rocha Lima e a Descoberta da Rickettsia prowazekii. Rev ... With his friend, Stanislaus von Prowazek, he described what would later be known as Rickettsia prowazekii, the pathogen of ... Rickettsia prowazeki- sua descoberta e caracterização constituindo um novo grupo de microrganismos. Revista Brasileira de ...

One protein from the obligate intracellular bacterial parasite, Rickettsia prowazekii, is of 498 amino acyl residues, and is ... Alexeyev, Mikhail (29 Jan 1999). "Membrane topology of the Rickettsia prowazekii ATP/ADP translocase revealed by novel dual pho ...

Rickettsia prowazekii, can cleave the signal sequences of proteins targeting mitochondria". J. Bacteriol. 189 (3): 844-50. doi: ... Emelyanov VV (2001). "Rickettsiaceae, rickettsia-like endosymbionts, and the origin of mitochondria". Biosci. Rep. 21 (1): 1-17 ... this hypothesis has been supported by the discovery of a bacterial signal peptidase in Rickettsia, an organism thought to be a ...

Typhus group rickettsiae (Rickettsia prowazekii, R. typhi) react with P. vulgaris OX19, and scrub typhus (Orientia ... By virtue of its long history and of its simplicity, it has been one of the most widely employed tests for rickettsia on a ... The Weil-Felix antibody was recently found to target rickettsia LPS O-antigen. The basis of the test is the presence of ... Rickettsia and Orientia. In: Manual of Clinical Microbiology, 9th Edition. 2007. ASM Press:Washington, DC. p. 1042 Kularatne, ...

Weigl worked on Rickettsia prowazekii and by inoculating lice and maintaining them on volunteers, he had developed a vaccine ... A centenarian and polyglot, he conducted research on viruses, mycoplasmas, rickettsiae, and other micro-organisms; and their ...

... especially Rickettsia prowazekii and Rickettsia rickettsii), Shigella spp., Vibrio cholerae, and Yersinia pestis. Many viral ...

In his study on the body louse, he proved that the bacteria Rickettsia prowazekii, known to cause epidemic typhus, is ...

Rickettsia prowazekii) were spread. In his experiments Nicolle infected a chimpanzee with typhus, retrieved the lice from it, ...

... who called it Rickettsia prowazekii.: 101 During the summer of 1900, the extremely hot weather and scarcity of the water supply ...

Along with Rickettsia prowazekii and Bartonella quintana, Borrelia recurrentis is one of three pathogens of which the body ...

The most important pathogens which are transmitted by them are Rickettsia prowazekii (causes epidemic typhus), Borrelia ...