Rickettsia heilongjiangensis

Rickettsia heilongjiangensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Rickettsiales
Family:	Rickettsiaceae
Genus:	Rickettsia
Species:	R. heilongjiangensis
Binomial name
Rickettsia heilongjiangensis Fournier et al., 2003

Rickettsia heilongjiangensis is a species of gram negative Alphaproteobacteria, within the spotted fever group, being carried by ticks. It is pathogenic (causing rickettsiosis).

Mediannikov, O.; Makarova, V.; Tarasevich, I.; Sidelnikov, Y.; Raoult, D. (2009). "Isolation ofRickettsia heilongjiangensisstrains from humans and ticks and its multispacer typing". Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 15: 288–289. doi:10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.02239.x. ISSN 1198-743X. 

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