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Rickettsia

noun
(pl. rickettsiae, rickettsias)
1.
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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Words linked to "Rickettsia" :   rickettsial, eubacterium, Rickettsiaceae, true bacteria, eubacteria



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