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Other Rickettsia Species
Rickettsia Prowazekii (Classic Louse-Borne Epidemic Typhus: Brill-Zinsser Disease Or Recrudescent Typhus; Sylvatic Or Flying Squirrel-Associated Typhus) Description of Pathogen Rickettsia prowazekii is a small, gram-negative, obligately intracellular, rod-shaped bacterium. R. prowazekii possesses a regularly arrayed surface autotransporter protein (OmpB) layer…