Query: NC_015321:867143 Fluviicola taffensis DSM 16823 chromosome, complete genome
Lineage: Fluviicola taffensis; Fluviicola; Cryomorphaceae; Flavobacteriales; Bacteroidetes; Bacteria
General Information: Environment: Fresh water, Hot spring; Isolation: Water of the River Taff, Cardiff, UK; Temp: Mesophile; Temp: 20C. This is a freshwater bacterium from the phylum Bacteroidetes isolated from water of the River Taff, Cardiff, UK.
Subject: NC_000963:141500 Rickettsia prowazekii str. Madrid E, complete genome
Lineage: Rickettsia prowazekii; Rickettsia; Rickettsiaceae; Rickettsiales; Proteobacteria; Bacteria
General Information: This strain is an egg-passaged attentuated avirulent strain that has been used as a live vaccine and was originally isolated from a typhus patient in Madrid. This species is the causal agent of typhus. The bacteria are transmitted via an insect, usually a tick, to a host organism, in this case humans, where they target endothelial cells and sometimes macrophages. They attach via an adhesin, rickettsial outer membrane protein A, and are internalized where they persist as cytoplasmically free organisms. Transovarial transmission (from mother to offspring) occurs in the invertebrate host.