Rickettsia

type of bacteria that causes typhus, among other diseases
Taxon taxon Q627992
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Rickettsia

Summary

Rickettsia is a taxon[1]. Rickettsia ranks in the top 0.69% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,160 views/month, #1,354 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Rickettsia's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Rickettsia is classified at the rank of genus[4].
  • Howard Taylor Ricketts is named after Rickettsia[5].
  • Rickettsia belongs to the parent taxon Rickettsiaceae[6].
  • Under binomial nomenclature, Rickettsia is Rickettsia[7].
  • Rickettsia's Commons category is recorded as Rickettsia[8].
  • The taxonomic type of Rickettsia is Rickettsia prowazekii[9].
  • Rickettsia's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Rickettsia[10].
  • Rickettsia's has effect is recorded as typhus[11].
  • Rickettsia's has effect is recorded as rickettsialpox[12].
  • Rickettsia's has effect is recorded as rickettsiosis[13].
  • Rickettsia's LPSN URL is recorded as https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/rickettsia[14].
  • Rickettsia's studied by is recorded as rickettsiology[15].
  • Rickettsia's Gram staining is recorded as gram-negative bacteria[16].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Rickettsia is Rickettsia[7]. Rickettsia is classified at the rank of genus[4]. Rickettsia belongs to the parent taxon Rickettsiaceae[6]. The taxonomic type of Rickettsia is Rickettsia prowazekii[9].

Discovery and Description

Howard Taylor Ricketts is named after Rickettsia[5].

Identifiers

Rickettsia's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 356686[17]. Rickettsia's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 780[18]. Rickettsia's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 97609[19]. Rickettsia's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3221436[20]. Rickettsia's ITIS TSN is recorded as 957982[21].

Why It Matters

Rickettsia ranks in the top 0.69% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,160 views/month, #1,354 of 195,241).[2] Rickettsia has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] Rickettsia is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [18] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [21] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [19] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [20] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has effect typhus, rickettsialpox, rickettsiosis
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    Taxonomic type Rickettsia prowazekii
    Parent taxon Rickettsiaceae
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007538879305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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