| Rickettsia peacockii | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Rickettsiales |
| Family: | Rickettsiaceae |
| Genus: | Rickettsia |
| Species group: | Spotted fever group |
| Species: | R. peacockii
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| Binomial name | |
| Rickettsia peacockii NIEBYLSKI et al., 1997
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Rickettsia peacockii is a species of gram negative Alphaproteobacteria of the spotted fever group, identified from Rocky Mountain wood ticks (Dermacentor andersoni).[1] Its type strain is SkalkahoT. The organism is passed transstadially and transovarially, and infections are localized in ovarial tissues.[citation needed]
- ^ Niebylski, M. L.; Schrumpf, M. E.; Burgdorfer, W.; Fischer, E. R.; Gage, K. L.; Schwan, T. G. (1997). "Rickettsia peacockii sp. nov., a New Species Infecting Wood Ticks, Dermacentor andersoni, in Western Montana". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 47 (2): 446–452. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-446. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103635.