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rickettsia

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Noun

any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings

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rickets rickettsia
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family rickettsiaceae genus rickettsia order rickettsiales rickettsia rickettsiaceae rickettsial rickettsial disease rickettsiales rickettsialpox
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ornithosis parrot fever rat typhus urban typhus murine typhus endemic typhus marseilles fever kenya fever indian tick fever boutonneuse fever more...

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