Query: NC_016609:5802000 Niastella koreensis GR20-10 chromosome, complete genome
Lineage: Niastella koreensis; Niastella; Chitinophagaceae; Sphingobacteriales; Bacteroidetes; Bacteria
General Information: Country: Korea; Environment: Soil, Fresh water; Isolation: Soil cultivated with Korean ginseng; Yeongju; Temp: Psychrophile. Niastella koreensis is a soil bacterium which is motile by gliding.
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.