Rickettsia africae

Rickettsia africae is a species of Rickettsia.

It can cause African tick-bite fever.[1]

References

  1. Fournier PE, El Karkouri K, Leroy Q et al. (2009). "Analysis of the Rickettsia africae genome reveals that virulence acquisition in Rickettsia species may be explained by genome reduction". BMC Genomics 10: 166. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-166. PMC 2694212. PMID 19379498.