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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Rickettsia fournieri

Name: Rickettsia fournieri Diop et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: four.nie’ri. N.L. gen. masc. n. fournieri, of Fournier, named after the French clinical microbiologist Pierre-Edouard Fournier for his contribution to the taxonomy of rickettsiae

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … four-NIE-ri, feminine

Type strain: AUS118; CSUR R501; DSM 28985

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KF666475 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Diop A, Barker SC, Eberhard M, Barker D, Nguyen TT, Di Pinto F, Raoult D, Mediannikov O. Rickettsia fournieri sp. nov., a novel spotted fever group rickettsia from Argas lagenoplastis ticks in Australia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3781-3784. 🇫🇷

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:600-601.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Parent taxon: Rickettsia da Rocha-Lima 1916 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Diop A, Barker SC, Eberhard M, Barker D, Nguyen TT, Di Pinto F, Raoult D, Mediannikov O. Rickettsia fournieri sp. nov., a novel spotted fever group rickettsia from Argas lagenoplastis ticks in Australia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:3781-3784. 🇫🇷

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Record number: 798011
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