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The Order Rickettsiales

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The Prokaryotes

Introduction

Rickettsiae are genetically related α-Proteobacteria with fascinating obligately intracellular lifestyles usually involving alternation between vertebrate and invertebrate hosts. These feats are accomplished with small, evolutionarily selected genomes. The agents classified as Rickettsia, Orientia, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, Wolbachia and Neorickettsia cause diseases (such as epidemic louse-borne typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, scrub typhus, human ehrlichioses, and bovine anaplasmosis) that have repeatedly altered the course of history (Zinsser, 1935), unexpectedly kill previously healthy tick-exposed persons, occur as highly prevalent endemic febrile illness, and are veterinary pathogens of major economic importance.

Although mostly known as pathogens transmitted by hematophagous ticks and insects, some of the Rickettsiales are insect endosymbionts (Wolbachia) that have evolved dramatic abilities to manipulate their host populations, and others (Neorickettsia)...

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  1. Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Box 196, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0312, USA

    Martin Dworkin Professor Dr. (Editor-in-Chief) (Editor-in-Chief)

  2. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University Medical School, 299 Campus Drive, Fairchild, D039, Stanford, CA, 94305-5124, USA

    Stanley Falkow

  3. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, 69978, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  4. Department of Microbiology, Technical University Munich, 80290, Munich, Germany

    Karl-Heinz Schleifer

  5. DSMZ- German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Mascheroder Weg 1b, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany

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Yu, XJ., Walker, D.H. (2006). The Order Rickettsiales. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30745-1_20

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