Rickettsia honei

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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| genus = Rickettsia

| species = honei

| parent = Spotted fever group

| authority = Stenos et al., 1998

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Rickettsia honei is a species of Rickettsia.{{cite journal |vauthors=Stenos J, Roux V, Walker D, Raoult D |title=Rickettsia honei sp. nov., the aetiological agent of Flinders Island spotted fever in Australia |journal=Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. |volume=48 |issue= 4|pages=1399–404 |date=October 1998 |pmid=9828442 |doi= 10.1099/00207713-48-4-1399 |url=http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=9828442 |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Unsworth NB, Stenos J, Graves SR, etal |title=Flinders Island spotted fever rickettsioses caused by "marmionii" strain of Rickettsia honei, Eastern Australia |journal=Emerging Infect. Dis. |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=566–73 |date=April 2007 |pmid=17553271 |pmc=2725950 |doi=10.3201/eid1304.050087 }}{{cite journal |vauthors=Xin D, El Karkouri K, Robert C, Raoult D, Fournier PE |title=Genomic comparison of Rickettsia honei strain RBT and other Rickettsia Species |journal=J. Bacteriol. |volume=194 |issue=15 |pages=4145 |date=August 2012 |pmid=22815457 |pmc=3416548 |doi=10.1128/JB.00802-12 |url=}}

It can cause Flinders Island spotted fever.{{Cite web |title=Flinders Island Spotted Fever fact sheet |url=https://www.health.tas.gov.au/publications/flinders-island-spotted-fever-fact-sheet |access-date=2023-03-15 |website=Tasmanian Department of Health |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Unsworth |first=Nathan B. |last2=Stenos |first2=John |last3=McGregor |first3=Alistair R. |last4=Dyer |first4=John R. |last5=Graves |first5=Stephen R. |date=Jun 2005 |title=Not only ‘Flinders Island’ spotted fever |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0031302516340818 |journal=Pathology |language=en |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=242–245 |doi=10.1080/00313020500099247|url-access=subscription }}