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Species Rickettsia tillamookensis
Name: Rickettsia tillamookensis Gauthier et al. 2021
Etymology: til.la.moo.ken’sis. N.L. fem. adj. tillamookensis, from Tillamook County, Oregon, USA from where a pool of western blacklegged (Ixodes pacificus) ticks were collected in 1967 and were used to obtain the primary isolate in 1976 [1]
Pronunciation, gender: til-la-moo-KEN-sis, feminine
Type strain: CRIRC RTI001; CSUR R5043; Tillamook 23
Conduct genome-based taxonomy at
16S rRNA gene:
CP060138
Analyse
FASTA
Valid publication:
Gauthier DT, Karpathy SE, Grizzard SL, Batra D, Rowe LA, Paddock CD. Characterization of a novel transitional group Rickettsia species (Rickettsia tillamookensis sp. nov.) from the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4880. 
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IJSEM list:
Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 71, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:5006.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)
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Notes:
- 🎓 Name mentioned 10 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
- 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded pathogenicity of the species itself.
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🧍 See also Gauthier et al. (2023).
Publication:
Gauthier DT, Karpathy SE, Grizzard SL, Batra D, Rowe LA, Paddock CD. Corrigendum: Characterization of a novel transitional group Rickettsia species (Rickettsia tillamookensis sp. nov.) from the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:6005. 🇺🇸
Parent taxon: Rickettsia da Rocha-Lima 1916 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by:
Gauthier DT, Karpathy SE, Grizzard SL, Batra D, Rowe LA, Paddock CD. Characterization of a novel transitional group Rickettsia species (Rickettsia tillamookensis sp. nov.) from the western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4880. 🇺🇸
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Record number: 11747
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