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Species of bacterium

Rickettsia sibirica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Rickettsiales
Family:	Rickettsiaceae
Genus:	Rickettsia
Species group:	Spotted fever group
Species:	R. sibirica
Binomial name
*Rickettsia sibirica* Zdrodovskii, 1948

Rickettsia sibirica is a species of Rickettsia. This bacterium is the etiologic agent of North Asian tick typhus, which is also known as Siberian tick typhus. The ticks that transmit it are primarily various species of Dermacentor and Haemaphysalis.

References

Harrus S, Perlman-Avrahami A, Mumcuoglu KY, Morick D, Baneth G (March 2010). "Molecular detection of Rickettsia massiliae, Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae and Rickettsia conorii israelensis in ticks from Israel". Clin Microbiol Infect. 17 (2): 176–80. doi:10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03224.x. PMID 20331680.
Parola P, Paddock CD, Raoult D (2005). "Tick-Borne Rickettsioses around the World: Emerging Diseases Challenging Old Concepts". Clinical Microbiology Reviews. 18 (4): 719–756. doi:10.1128/CMR.18.4.719-756.2005. PMC 1265907. PMID 16223955.
Piesman, J.; Gage, K.L. (2004), Eldridge, B.F.; Edman, J.D. (eds.), Bacterial and Rickettsial Diseases, Medical Entomology: A Textbook on Public Health and Veterinary Problems Caused by Arthropods (2nd ed.), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 402, ISBN 978-1-4020-1794-0

Tick-borne	Rickettsia rickettsii Rocky Mountain spotted fever Rickettsia conorii Boutonneuse fever Rickettsia japonica Japanese spotted fever Rickettsia sibirica North Asian tick typhus Rickettsia australis Queensland tick typhus Rickettsia honei Flinders Island spotted fever Rickettsia africae African tick bite fever Rickettsia parkeri American tick bite fever Rickettsia aeschlimannii Rickettsia aeschlimannii infection
Mite-borne	Rickettsia akari Rickettsialpox Orientia tsutsugamushi Scrub typhus
Flea-borne	Rickettsia felis Flea-borne spotted fever

Brucellaceae	Brucella abortus Brucellosis
Bartonellaceae	Bartonellosis: Bartonella henselae Cat-scratch disease Bartonella quintana Trench fever Either B. henselae or B. quintana Bacillary angiomatosis Bartonella bacilliformis Carrion's disease, Verruga peruana

M+	Neisseria meningitidis/meningococcus Meningococcal disease, Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome, Meningococcal septicaemia
M−	Neisseria gonorrhoeae/gonococcus Gonorrhea
ungrouped:	Eikenella corrodens/Kingella kingae HACEK Chromobacterium violaceum Chromobacteriosis infection

H2S+	Salmonella enterica Typhoid fever, Paratyphoid fever, Salmonellosis
H2S−	Shigella dysenteriae/sonnei/flexneri/boydii Shigellosis, Bacillary dysentery Proteus mirabilis/Proteus vulgaris Yersinia pestis Plague/Bubonic plague Yersinia enterocolitica Yersiniosis Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Far East scarlet-like fever

Haemophilus:	H. influenzae Haemophilus meningitis Brazilian purpuric fever H. ducreyi Chancroid H. parainfluenzae HACEK
Pasteurella multocida	Pasteurellosis Actinobacillus Actinobacillosis
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans	HACEK

Campylobacterales	Campylobacter jejuni Campylobacteriosis, Guillain–Barré syndrome Helicobacter pylori Peptic ulcer, MALT lymphoma, Gastric cancer Helicobacter cinaedi Helicobacter cellulitis

Taxon identifiers
Rickettsia sibirica	Wikidata: Q7331936 CoL: 4T2DS EoL: 976599 GBIF: 3221483 IRMNG: 11048586 ITIS: 965662 LPSN: rickettsia-sibirica NCBI: 35793 Open Tree of Life: 339322

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