GENOME: Rickettsia africae
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Entry
T00979 Complete Genome
Org code
raf
Name
Rickettsia africae ESF-5
Annotation
yes
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Taxonomy
TAX:
347255
Lineage
Bacteria; Pseudomonadota; Alphaproteobacteria; Rickettsiales; Rickettsiaceae; Rickettsieae; Rickettsia; spotted fever group
Taxonomy
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KEGG organisms [BR:
br08601
]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:
br08610
]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:
br08611
]
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Data source
GenBank
(Assembly:
GCA_000023005.1
Complete Genome)
BioProject:
18269
Keywords
Human pathogen
Disease
H00323
Spotted fever
Comment
Isolated in an Amblyomma variegatum tick collected from cattle in the Shulu province of Ethiopia in 1966.
Chromosome
Circular
Sequence
GB:
CP001612
Length
1278540
Plasmid
pRAF; Circular
Sequence
GB:
CP001613
Length
12377
Statistics
Number of nucleotides: 1290917
Number of protein genes: 1041
Number of RNA genes: 39
Created
2009
Reference
PMID:
19379498
Authors
Fournier PE, El Karkouri K, Leroy Q, Robert C, Giumelli B, Renesto P, Socolovschi C, Parola P, Audic S, Raoult D
Title
Analysis of the Rickettsia africae genome reveals that virulence acquisition in Rickettsia species may be explained by genome reduction.
Journal
BMC Genomics 10:166 (2009)
DOI:
10.1186/1471-2164-10-166
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