Talk:Rickettsia rickettsii

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Hi, I am Cheungd (talk) and I edited a part of this article. I looked over and took out some irrelevant information about one of the founders, Howard Ricketts. There was an excessive amount of information about his schooling, and I found that irrelevant. Those reading may simply look at the link for Ricketts to learn more about his education and life. Additionally, I fixed various grammatical errors throughout the article, rearranged information within the article, and deleted repeating information. Finally, I edited the "evolution" section of the article. Because the section only really hinted at evolutionary principles, I changed the article heading to the "influence of climate change", which I found more appropriate. For this section I noticed a use of a primary source, and i believe a review article would be more appropriate to ensure that the data is accurate and reliable data. Please review my work and edit if you see fit! Cheungd (talk)

For transmission, I added a few details that may be evolutionarily relevant. The fact that more males are killed as opposed to females could affect what diseases are present in the population, the alleles present and so on. I think it would be wise to expand upon this and further discuss why it happens. Cheesecakefantasy (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:03, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

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I would expand on the mechanisms for evading the host immune system, as it is unclear what is meant by that currently. Also, how can you have a study looked at affected patients, and determine the rate of infection from that? Wouldn't they all have the infection? Evol&#38;Glass (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:54, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

revisions to feedback
feedback to chungd: I agreed that there was too much arbitrary information in much of the article. In order to fix this I went ahead and cut out everything I found was too advanced or useless for this specific topic. For the evolution section, a agree that the information in the section was too research based and not very pertinent to the article. To fix this I cut out the section completely and added an "around the world" section that hits on how the disease is more prevalent in some places over others and why that is very briefly. 2015evolution7 (talk) 20:39, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

feedback to cheesecakefantasy: I liked the information you added on how the ratio of sexes are affected by the disease. I took the information you added and further explained how this helps the bacteria remain in a population through generations. 2015evolution7 (talk) 20:39, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Comments for 2nd review by EVO1995
I think this article has been revised well so far, did however change the sentence structure since one of the sentences was a run on. "Rickettsia have been found to distort the sex ratio of their hosts by eradicating males and undergoing pathogenesis. This is done primarily via a horizontal gene transfer."

Also, you added some vital information towards the end of your contribution regarding multiple modes of transmission which ensures the bacterias fitness, but I think the evolution part of your topic could be expanded a little more. If you find more information about how the fittest genes have survived and how often, I would definitely add it. Also, add an example of one of the virulence factors that has allowed the survival of this infection.

Evo1995 (talk) 12:42, 16 November 2015 (UTC)Comments for 2nd review by EVO1995

Final contributions
Hello over the past 3-4 months I 2015evolution7 (talk) 16:53, 8 December 2015 (UTC) have been editing this article in hopes to further educate people on the Rickettsia rickettsii pathogen. Over this time I have edited the overall flow of the article and made sure to cut out a lot of the unnecessary information. By cutting out this unnecessary information there wasn't a whole lot of useful information on the pathogen outside of diagnosis and treatment of rocky mountain spotted fever. To make up for this I added a lot on methods of transmission of the disease. I also added evolutionary ideas of how virulence and spread of the pathogen over time further increased the fitness of the pathogen. With the help and ideas from my peers I added even more useful information on how transmission of the disease can effect how well the pathogen thrives. Overall I think this article now has good general information for anyone curious on how Rickettsia rickettsii pathogen functions and how it effects vertebrates including humans. 2015evolution7 (talk) 16:52, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

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Comments for review/ edits
Greetings Graham Beards!

We see there have been many edits regarding this article and edits to capitalization. Also, we have noticed there have been some changes with content in general. For future edits regarding the information, we would love if the talk page could be utilized to discuss the changes as most of these were researched points or were correct uses of grammar. Thank you! Ebathens (talk) 13:50, 2 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi Ebathens. Did you read my edit summaries? With regard to capital letters in headings please see the Wikipedia Manual of Style here: WP:MOS. My changes were correct. As for the prose, there is more to take into account than grammar; there was a lot of padding and redundancies. Look at this for example ""experienced terminal effects". I assumed this meant "died" and changed it accordingly. My main objection to the recent batch of edits is that we already have an article on Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and this article is about the pathogen that causes it, not the disease. Articles on pathogens should include, morphology, metabolism, evolution, taxonomy, transmission, geographic distribution, laboratory culture, current research and so forth. Information on epidemiology, signs and symptoms of infections, and treatment of infections belong in the disease article. I have left the "Clinical manifestations" section in place for the time being despite its redundancy but I added a link to the main article. Perhaps your group should have made more use of the Talk Page before adding content and changing the style of the article? I look forward to your response. (PS. Please try not to use exclamation marks in discussions, we try not to shout at each other here). Best regards. Graham Beards (talk) 15:10, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

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