Species Rickettsia raoultii

Name: Rickettsia raoultii Mediannikov et al. 2008

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ra.oult’i.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. raoultii, of Raoult, named after Professor Didier Raoult, founder of the WHO-Collaborative Centre for Rickettsioses, Borrelioses and Tick-borne Infections in Marseilles, France, and a major contributor to the study of rickettsiae

Gender: feminine

Type strain: ATCC VR-1596; CSUR R3; Khabarovsk

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16S rRNA gene: DQ365810 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Mediannikov O, Matsumoto K, Samoylenko I, Drancourt M, Roux V, Rydkina E, Davoust B, Tarasevich I, Brouqui P, Fournier PE. Rickettsia raoultii sp. nov., a spotted fever group rickettsia associated with Dermacentor ticks in Europe and Russia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1635-1639.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:2247-2248.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Rickettsia conorii subsp. raoultii (Mediannikov et al. 2008) Hördt et al. 2020

Risk group: 2

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Rickettsia conorii subsp. raoultii (Mediannikov et al. 2008) Hördt et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, distinct rank

Emendations:
- Hördt et al. 2020 Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:468. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 32. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4061-4090.

Notes:
- ❗ Rickettsia raoultii is the correct name instead if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Rickettsia.
- 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 2 - Considerations for containment: Prior to CBSG First Edition, additional operation procedures were required.". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 2, note = "Z".
- 🎓 Name mentioned 162 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
- 🧍 According to Bartlett et al. (2022), this species is an established human pathogen. Publication: Bartlett A, Padfield D, Lear L, Bendall R, Vos M. A comprehensive list of bacterial pathogens infecting humans. Microbiology 2022; 168:0.
- 🧍 The type strain has also been deposited in the rickettsial collection of the World Health Organization-Collaborative Gamaleya Institute under reference 147. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592.

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

Assigned by: Mediannikov O, Matsumoto K, Samoylenko I, Drancourt M, Roux V, Rydkina E, Davoust B, Tarasevich I, Brouqui P, Fournier PE. Rickettsia raoultii sp. nov., a spotted fever group rickettsia associated with Dermacentor ticks in Europe and Russia. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1635-1639.

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