KEGG GENOME: Rickettsia africae

GENOME: Rickettsia africae

Entry

T00979            Complete  Genome

Org code

raf

Name

Rickettsia africae ESF-5

Annotation

yes

Taxonomy

Lineage

Bacteria; Pseudomonadota; Alphaproteobacteria; Rickettsiales; Rickettsiaceae; Rickettsieae; Rickettsia; spotted fever group

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

Spotted fever

Comment

Isolated in an Amblyomma variegatum tick collected from cattle in the Shulu province of Ethiopia in 1966.

Chromosome

Circular

Sequence

Length

1278540

Plasmid

pRAF; Circular

Sequence

Length

12377

Statistics

Number of nucleotides:       1290917
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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