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 (Latin), gender: rik-KETT-si-a 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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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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