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...

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

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...

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

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

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

day S. Typhi DNA were detected, whereas Yersinia pestis (plague), Rickettsia prowazekii (typhus), Mycobacterium tuberculosis, cowpox virus, and Bartonella...

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

available. One typhus vaccine consisted of formaldehyde-inactivated Rickettsia prowazekii. Two doses were injected subcutaneously four weeks apart. Booster...