| Entry | T00979 |
| Org code | raf |
| Name | Rickettsia africae ESF-5 |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX: 347255 |
| Lineage | Bacteria; Pseudomonadati; Pseudomonadota; Alphaproteobacteria; Rickettsiales; Rickettsiaceae; Rickettsieae; Rickettsia; spotted fever group; Rickettsia africae |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Rickettsia africae