Rickettsia honei

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Rickettsia honei
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Rickettsiales
Family: Rickettsiaceae
Genus: Rickettsia
Species group: Spotted fever group
Species:
R. honei
Binomial name
Rickettsia honei
Stenos et al., 1998

Rickettsia honei is a species of Rickettsia.[1][2][3]It can cause Flinders Island spotted fever.[4][5]

Clinical image of Rickettsia honei eschar

References

  1. Stenos J, Roux V, Walker D, Raoult D (October 1998). "Rickettsia honei sp. nov., the aetiological agent of Flinders Island spotted fever in Australia". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 48 (4): 1399–404. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-4-1399. PMID 9828442.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. Unsworth NB, Stenos J, Graves SR, et al. (April 2007). "Flinders Island spotted fever rickettsioses caused by "marmionii" strain of Rickettsia honei, Eastern Australia". Emerging Infect. Dis. 13 (4): 566–73. doi:10.3201/eid1304.050087. PMC 2725950. PMID 17553271.
  3. Xin D, El Karkouri K, Robert C, Raoult D, Fournier PE (August 2012). "Genomic comparison of Rickettsia honei strain RBT and other Rickettsia Species". J. Bacteriol. 194 (15): 4145. doi:10.1128/JB.00802-12. PMC 3416548. PMID 22815457.
  4. "Flinders Island Spotted Fever fact sheet". Tasmanian Department of Health. Archived from the original on 2023-03-15. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  5. Unsworth, Nathan B.; Stenos, John; McGregor, Alistair R.; Dyer, John R.; Graves, Stephen R. (Jun 2005). "Not only 'Flinders Island' spotted fever". Pathology. 37 (3): 242–245. doi:10.1080/00313020500099247. Archived from the original on 2023-06-17. Retrieved 2023-03-15.