Rickettsia africae explained
Rickettsia africae is a species of Rickettsia.
It can cause African tick-bite fever.[1]
Notes and References
- Fournier PE, El Karkouri K, Leroy Q, etal . Analysis of the Rickettsia africae genome reveals that virulence acquisition in Rickettsia species may be explained by genome reduction . BMC Genomics . 10 . 166 . 2009 . 19379498 . 2694212 . 10.1186/1471-2164-10-166 . free .