Rickettsia rickettsii
id:
rickettsia-rickettsii-210-1216931
title:
Rickettsia rickettsii
text:
Rickettsia rickettsii is a Gram-negative, intracellular, coccobacillus bacterium that was first discovered in 1902. Having a reduced genome, the bacterium harvests nutrients from its host cell to carry out respiration, making it an organoheterotroph. Maintenance of its genome is carried out through vertical gene transfer where specialization of the bacterium allows it to shuttle host sugars directly into its TCA cycle. Other characteristics of the bacteria include membrane proteins that are usef
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Species of bacterium
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickettsia_rickettsii
date created:
2004-09-17T14:12:55Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T16:48:26Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q2698925","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2698925"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Rickettsia_rickettsii.jpg","width":297,"height":278}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16