Rickettsia asembonensis (NMRCii, DSM 100172, CDC CRIRC RAS001)

Name: Rickettsia asembonensis (NMRCii, DSM 100172, CDC CRIRC RAS001)
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BacDive ID 133212

Type strain

Strain Designation NMRCii

Culture col. no. NMRCii DSM 100172 CDC CRIRC RAS001 ATCC VR-1827

NCBI tax ID(s) 1068590

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

Rickettsia asembonensis NMRCii is an obligate aerobe bacterium of the family Rickettsiaceae.

obligate aerobe genome sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

NMRCii DSM 100172 CDC CRIRC RAS001 ATCC VR-1827

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:02

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rickettsiales

Family Rickettsiaceae

Genus Rickettsia

Species Rickettsia asembonensis

Full scientific name Rickettsia asembonensis Maina et al. 2016

Synonyms (2)

"Candidatus Rickettsia asemboensis"
"Candidatus Rickettsia asembonensis"

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125439	negative	91.574

Colony morphology

25024

Medium usedSchneider’s Drosophila medium

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition
25024	Schneider’s Drosophila medium		5 % heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
25024	positive	growth	25

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
25024	obligate aerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	98.154

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		95.938

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM82812v2 assembly for Rickettsia asembonensis NMRCii	contig	GCA_000828125	1068590.7	2802429295	1068590	57.33

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
25024	32.28	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM82812v2 assembly for Rickettsia asembonensis NMRCii
NCBI: GCA_000828125

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	98.15	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	91.57	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	77.46	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	95.94	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Whole-Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Rickettsia asemboensis" Strain NMRCii, Isolated from Fleas of Western Kenya.	Jima DD, Luce-Fedrow A, Yang Y, Maina AN, Snesrud EC, Otiang E, Njenga K, Jarman RG, Richards AL, Hang J	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomeA.00018-15	2015
Phylogeny	Isolation and characterization of a novel Rickettsia species (Rickettsia asembonensis sp. nov.) obtained from cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis).	Maina AN, Luce-Fedrow A, Omulo S, Hang J, Chan TC, Ade F, Jima DD, Ogola E, Ge H, Breiman RF, Njenga MK, Richards AL	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001382	2016

References

#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#25024	A. N. L.-F. Maina, A.,Omulo, S.,Hang, J.,Chan, T. C.,Ade, F.,Jima, D. D.,Ogola, E.,Ge, H.,Breiman, R. F.,Njenga, M. K.,Richards, A. L.: Isolation and characterization of a novel Rickettsia species (Rickettsia asembonensis sp. nov.) obtained from cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis). IJSEM 66: 4512 - 4517 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001382 , PubMed 27506201 )
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .

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Rickettsia asembonensis (NMRCii, DSM 100172, CDC CRIRC RAS001)

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000828125

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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