Name: Rickettsia amblyommatis WB-8-2
Creator: BacDive
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 133288

Type strain:

Species: Rickettsia amblyommatis

Strain Designation: WB-8-2

Culture col. no.: CRIRC RAM004, CSUR P2882

NCBI tax ID(s): 33989 (species)

Section

Rickettsia amblyommatis WB-8-2 is a Gram-negative, oval-shaped bacterium that was isolated from adult A. americanum tick.

Gram-negative
oval-shaped
Bacteria

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Alphaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Rickettsiales*
	Family	*Rickettsiaceae*
	Genus	*Rickettsia*
	Species	"Candidatus Rickettsia amblyommatis"
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Candidatus Rickettsia amblyommatis corrig. Labruna et al. 2004

	Synonym	"Candidatus* Rickettsia amblyommii"*
	Synonym	**Rickettsia amblyommatis**

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #25093]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #25093]	Cell length	0.832 µm

[Ref.: #25093]	Cell width	0.427 µm

[Ref.: #25093]	Cell shape	oval-shaped

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

Vero E6 cells

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chicken fibroblasts

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primary embryonated chicken eggs

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ISE6 tick cells

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AAE2 tick cells

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Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #25093]	Sample type/isolated from	adult A. americanum tick
[Ref.: #25093]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	vegetation at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, Stewart County, TN
[Ref.: #25093]	Country	USA
[Ref.: #25093]	Country ISO 3 Code	USA
[Ref.: #25093]	Continent	North America
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Isolation sources categories

#Host

#Arthropoda

#Tick

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Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

CRIRC RAM004, CSUR P2882

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Rickettsia amblyommatis sp. nov., a spotted fever group Rickettsia associated with multiple species of Amblyomma ticks in North, Central and South America.	Karpathy SE, Slater KS, Goldsmith CS, Nicholson WL, Paddock CD	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001502	2016	*

References

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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 )

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S. E. S. Karpathy, K. S.,Goldsmith, C. S.,Nicholson, W. L.,Paddock, C. D.: Rickettsia amblyommatis sp. nov., a spotted fever group Rickettsia associated with multiple species of Amblyomma ticks in North, Central and South America. IJSEM 66: 5236 - 5243 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001502 , PubMed 27638476 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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