ATCC® Number:VR-599™
Classification: Rickettsiae
Agent: Rickettsia sp. deposited as Thai tick typhus
Strain: TT-118
Original Source: Recovered from a mixed pool of 62 Ixodes and Rhipicephalus larval ticks, Thailand, 1962.
Depositors: M Bozeman
Biosafety Level:3
Shipped: freeze-dried
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Host Organism : chicken embryo chicken embryo; guinea pig
Incubation : Temperature: 33.5°C Duration: 4 days
Effect : Yes, in vivo effects: death of chicken embryo Yes, in vivo effects: fever and scrotal reaction in guinea pig
References : 33694: Shirai A, et al. Experimental infection of the cotton rat Sigmodon hispidus with Rickettsia rickettsii. J. Bacteriol. 94: 1334-1339, 1967. PubMed: 4964475