Rickettsia australis | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
Order: | Rickettsiales |
Family: | Rickettsiaceae |
Genus: | Rickettsia |
Species group: | Spotted fever group |
Species: | R. australis
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Binomial name | |
Rickettsia australis Philip, 1950
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Rickettsia australis is a bacterium that causes a medical condition called Queensland tick typhus.[1][2] The probable vectors are the tick species, Ixodes holocyclus and Ixodes tasmani. Small marsupials are suspected reservoirs of this bacterium.[3]