What is Rickettsia?
{{italictitle}} {{Taxobox | image = Rickettsia rickettsii.jpg | image_widht = 250px | image_caption = ''Rickettsia rickettsii'' | domain = [[Bacteria]] | phylum = [[Proteobacteria]] | classis = Alphaproteobacteria | ordo = [[Rickettsiales]] | familia = [[Rickettsiaceae]] | genus = '''''Rickettsia''''' | genus_authority = da Rocha-Lima, 1916 }} '''''Rickettsia''''' is a unique [[genus]] classified between a [[virus]] and a [[bacteria]]. The organism is unique in that it has a [[cell wall]] and exists only in living cells like a virus, but is susceptible to [[antibiotics]] like bacteria. The method of growing ''Rickettsia'' in chicken embryos was invented by [[Ernest William Goodpasture]] and his colleagues at [[Vanderbilt University]] in the early 1930s. {{biology-stub}} [[category:Gram-negative bacteria]]