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English noun: rickettsia

1. rickettsia (animal) 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


Broader (hypernym)eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria


Member meronymfamily Rickettsiaceae, Rickettsiaceae









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