Rickettsia prowazekii is a species of gram-negative, alphaproteobacteria, obligate intracellular parasitic, aerobic bacillus bacteria that is the etiologic...

USA) Unknown pathogenicity Rickettsia prowazekii (worldwide) Epidemic typhus, recrudescent typhus, and sporadic typhus Rickettsia typhi (worldwide) Murine...

as well as Central and South America. The causative organism is Rickettsia prowazekii, transmitted by the human body louse (Pediculus humanus corporis)...

R. prowazekii. The discovery of R. typhi lead to the creation of the typhus group Rickettsia, which contains R. typhi and R. prowazekii. Rickettsia species...

P, et al. (September 2001). "Mechanisms of evolution in Rickettsia conorii and R. prowazekii". Science. 293 (5537): 2093–8. Bibcode:2001Sci...293.2093O...

specific types of bacterial infection. Epidemic typhus is caused by Rickettsia prowazekii spread by body lice, scrub typhus is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi...

Waddell AD, Jones M (October 1978). "External layers of Rickettsia prowazekii and Rickettsia rickettsii: occurrence of a slime layer". Infect Immun. 22...

by Rickettsia prowazekii. After a patient contracts epidemic typhus from the fecal matter of an infected louse (Pediculus humanus), the rickettsia can...

Rickettsia sibirica is a species of Rickettsia. This bacterium is the etiologic agent of North Asian tick typhus, which is also known as Siberian tick...

causative agent of Q fever. The genus Coxiella is morphologically similar to Rickettsia, but with a variety of genetic and physiological differences. C. burnetii...