| Species: | Rickettsia conorii
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| Species code: | RICCN
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| Type: | Eubacteria
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| Taxonomy: | Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Alphaproteobacteria; Rickettsiales; Rickettsiaceae; Rickettsieae; Rickettsia (TaxID: 781)
[NEWT /
NCBI]
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| Strain(s): | Malish 7
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| Genome: | circular, 1.27 Mb; no ECE
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| Reference(s): |
MEDLINE=21442074
[NCBI, ExPASy, Israel, Japan]; PubMed=11557893;
Ogata H., Audic S., Renesto-Audiffren P., Fournier P.-E., Barbe V.,
Samson D., Roux V., Cossart P., Weissenbach J., Claverie J.-M.,
Raoult D.;
"Mechanisms of evolution in Rickettsia conorii and R. prowazekii.";
Science 293:2093-2098(2001).
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| Genome official sequence WWW site(s): |
http://polyc.cnrs-mrs.fr/RicBase/
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| Other WWW site(s): |
GIB (DDBJ)
EBI GeneQuiz
TIGR CMR
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| Description: | Gram-negative intracellular parasite. R.conorii naturally infects
the dog brown tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus. When transmitted to
humans through tick bites, the bacterium causes Mediterranean spotted
fever.
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| Properties: | Number of membranes : 2
Presence of a flagella : No
Number of inteins : 0
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