KEGG   GENOME: Rickettsia africae
Entry
T00979            Complete  Genome                                 
Org code
raf
Name
Rickettsia africae ESF-5
Annotation
yes
Taxonomy
TAX:347255
  Lineage
Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Alphaproteobacteria; Rickettsiales; Rickettsiaceae; Rickettsia; Rickettsia africae
Org group
Bacteria; Alphaproteobacteria; Rickettsiales
Brite
KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
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 (GB:CP001612)
Plasmid
pRAF; Circular (GB:CP001613)
Statistics
Number of protein genes:        1041
Number of RNA genes:              39
Created
2009
Reference
  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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