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Rickettsia africae
Definition 1
A species of aerobic, Gram negative, rod and cocci shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is motile, obligatively intracellular and transmitted by a tick host, Amblyomma variegatum. R. africae is a pathogen that is the causative agent of African tick bite fever. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Rickettsia africae. (NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
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