1 Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, UMR CNRS 6236, IRD 198, Faculté de Médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France.
We report the complete and annotated genome sequence of Rickettsia helvetica strain C9P9, which was first isolated in 1979 from Ixodes ricinus ticks in Switzerland and is considered a human pathogen.