Rickettsia peacockii

Rickettsia peacockii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Rickettsiales
Family: Rickettsiaceae
Genus: Rickettsia
Species: R. peacockii
Binomial name
Rickettsia peacockii
NIEBYLSKI et al., 1997

Rickettsia peacockii is a species of gram negative Alphaproteobacteria of the spotted fever group, identified from Rocky Mountain wood ticks (Dermacentor andersoni).[1] Its type strain is SkalkahoT. The organism is passed transstadially and transovarially, and infections are localized in ovarial tissues.

References

  1. ↑ Niebylski, M. L.; Schrumpf, M. E.; Burgdorfer, W.; Fischer, E. R.; Gage, K. L.; Schwan, T. G. (1997). "Rickettsia peacockii sp. nov., a New Species Infecting Wood Ticks, Dermacentor andersoni, in Western Montana". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 47 (2): 446–452. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-446. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103635.

Further reading

  • Simser, J. A.; Palmer, A. T.; Munderloh, U. G.; Kurtti, T. J. (2001). "Isolation of a Spotted Fever Group Rickettsia, Rickettsia peacockii, in a Rocky Mountain Wood Tick, Dermacentor andersoni, Cell Line". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 67 (2): 546–552. doi:10.1128/AEM.67.2.546-552.2001. ISSN 0099-2240. PMC 92619. PMID 11157215.
  • Mattila, Joshua T.; Munderloh, Ulrike G.; Kurtti, Timothy J. (2007). "Rickettsia peacockii, an endosymbiont of Dermacentor andersoni, does not elicit or inhibit humoral immune responses from immunocompetent D. andersoni or Ixodes scapularis cell lines". Developmental & Comparative Immunology. 31 (11): 1095–1106. doi:10.1016/j.dci.2007.01.011. ISSN 0145-305X. PMC 2099254.
  • Felsheim, Roderick F.; Kurtti, Timothy J.; Munderloh, Ulrike G. (2009). "Genome sequence of the endosymbiont Rickettsia peacockii and comparison with virulent Rickettsia rickettsii: identification of virulence factors". PLOS ONE. 4 (12): e8361. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008361.


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