Rickettsia africae

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Rickettsia africae is a species of Rickettsia.

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

References

^ 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. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/10/166.

Infectious diseases · Bacterial diseases: Proteobacterial G− (primarily A00–A79, 001–041, 080–109)

Rickettsiales

Rickettsiaceae/
(Rickettsioses)

Typhus

Rickettsia typhi (Murine typhus) · Rickettsia prowazekii (Epidemic typhus, Brill–Zinsser disease, Flying squirrel typhus)

Spotted
fever

Tick-borne	Rickettsia rickettsii (Rocky Mountain spotted fever) · Rickettsia conorii (Boutonneuse fever) · Rickettsia japonica (Japanese spotted fever) · Rickettsia sibirica (North Asian tick typhus) · Rickettsia australis (Queensland tick typhus) · Rickettsia honei (Flinders Island spotted fever) · Rickettsia africae (African tick bite fever) · Rickettsia parkeri (American tick bite fever) · Rickettsia aeschlimannii (Rickettsia aeschlimannii infection)

Mite-borne	Rickettsia akari (Rickettsialpox) · Orientia tsutsugamushi (Scrub typhus)

Flea-borne	Rickettsia felis (Flea-borne spotted fever)

Anaplasmataceae

Ehrlichiosis: Anaplasma phagocytophilum (Human granulocytic anaplasmosis, Anaplasmosis) · Ehrlichia chaffeensis (Human monocytic ehrlichiosis) · Ehrlichia ewingii (Ehrlichiosis ewingii infection)

Rhizobiales

Brucellaceae	Brucella abortus (Brucellosis)

Bartonellaceae	Bartonellosis: Bartonella henselae (Cat scratch disease) · Bartonella quintana (Trench fever) · either henselae or quintana (Bacillary angiomatosis) · Bartonella bacilliformis (Carrion's disease, Verruga peruana)

Enterobacteriales
(OX-)

Pasteurellales

Haemophilus: H. influenzae (Haemophilus meningitis, Brazilian purpuric fever) · H. ducreyi (Chancroid) H. parainfluenzae (HACEK)

Pasteurella multocida (Pasteurellosis) · Actinobacillus (Actinobacillosis)

Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans (HACEK)

Legionellales

Legionella pneumophila/Legionella longbeachae (Legionellosis) · Coxiella burnetii (Q fever)

Thiotrichales

Francisella tularensis (Tularemia)

Vibrionales

Vibrio cholerae (Cholera) · Vibrio vulnificus · Vibrio parahaemolyticus · Vibrio alginolyticus · Plesiomonas shigelloides

Pseudomonadales

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pseudomonas infection) · Moraxella catarrhalis · Acinetobacter baumannii

Xanthomonadales

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

Cardiobacteriales

Cardiobacterium hominis (HACEK)

Aeromonadales

Aeromonas hydrophila/Aeromonas veronii (Aeromonas infection)

Campylobacterales

Campylobacter jejuni (Campylobacteriosis, Guillain-Barré syndrome) · Helicobacter pylori (Peptic ulcer, MALT lymphoma) · Helicobacter cinaedi (Helicobacter cellulitis)

M: BAC

bact (clas)

gr+f/gr+a(t)/gr-p(c)/gr-o

drug(J1p, w, n, m, vacc)

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