Rickettsia - Sanjay Manohar's Medical Browser
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Effects
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Description
- "Gram-negative bacteria.
Obligate intracellular parasites.
Hence needs to be cultured in chick embryo.
Unlike Chlamydia
- Mycoplasma
- and Ureaplasma
- they possess true cell walls similar to other Gram-negative bacteria.
Sensitive to tetracyclines.
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