Rickettsia felis

Rickettsia felis
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Subclass: "Rickettsidae"
Order: Rickettsiales
Family: Rickettsiaceae
Genus: Rickettsia
Species group: Spotted fever group
Species:
R. felis
Binomial name
Rickettsia felis
Bouyer et al., 2001[1] emend. La Scola et al., 2002[2]

Rickettsia felis is a species of bacterium, the pathogen that causes cat-flea typhus in humans, also known as flea-borne spotted fever.[3] Rickettsia felis also is regarded as the causative organism of many cases of illnesses generally classed as fevers of unknown origin in humans in Africa.

  1. ^ Bouyer DH, Stenos J, Crocquet-Valdes P, et al. (March 2001). "Rickettsia felis: molecular characterization of a new member of the spotted fever group". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 51 (Pt 2): 339–47. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-2-339. PMID 11321078.
  2. ^ La Scola B, Meconi S, Fenollar F, Rolain JM, Roux V, Raoult D (November 2002). "Emended description of Rickettsia felis (Bouyer et al. 2001), a temperature-dependent cultured bacterium". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 52 (Pt 6): 2035–41. doi:10.1099/00207713-52-6-2035. PMID 12508865.
  3. ^ Raoult, Didier; Parola, Philippe (2007). Rickettsial diseases. CRC Press. pp. 87–. ISBN 978-0-8493-7611-5. Retrieved 23 May 2010.
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