Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.976

Name

Orientia Tamura et al. 1995

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Rickettsiaceae Pinkerton 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001

Members

species	Orientia tsutsugamushi (Hayashi 1920) Tamura et al. 1995 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Orientia chiloensis (sic) Abarca et al. 2020
species	Orientia chuto (sic) Izzard et al. 2010

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Alphaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006
order Rickettsiales Gieszczykiewicz 1939 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
family Rickettsiaceae Pinkerton 1936 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Dumler et al. 2001
genus Orientia Tamura et al. 1995

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Orientia Tamura et al. 1995. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.976.

Source File

10.1601/tx.976.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 8, 2021.

References

Tamura A, Ohashi N, Urakami H, Miyamura S. Classification of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi in a new genus, Orientia gen. nov., as Orientia tsutsugamushi comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:589-591. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-45-3-589 [PubMed].
Izzard L, Fuller A, Blacksell SD, Paris DH, Richards AL, Aukkanit N, Nguyen C, Jiang J, Fenwick S, Day NPJ, Graves S, Stenos J. Isolation of a novel Orientia species (O. chuto sp. nov.) from a patient infected in Dubai. J Clin Microbiol 2010; 48:4404-4409. https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01526-10 [PubMed].
Abarca K, Martínez-Valdebenito C, Angulo J, Jiang J, Farris CM, Richards AL, Acosta-Jamett G, Weitzel T. Molecular Description of a Novel Orientia Species Causing Scrub Typhus in Chile. Emerg Infect Dis 2020; 26:2148-2156. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2609.200918 [PubMed].