Rickettsia prowazekii

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Rickettsia prowazekii is a species of gram-negative, obligate intracellular parasitic, aerobic bacilliform bacteria of class Alphaproteobacteria that is the etiologic agent of epidemic typhus, transmitted in the feces of lice. In North America, the main reservoir for R. prowazekii is the flying squirrel.

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Image: CDC/ Cornelius B. Philip, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rocky Mountain Lab., Hamilton, Montana, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.