Defenition of the word rickettsia

• Defenition of the word rickettsia

  • any of a group of parasitic microorganisms that live in arthropods (as ticks and mites) and can cause disease if transmitted to human beings
  • any of a group of parasitic bacteria that live in arthropods (as ticks and mites) and can cause disease if transmitted to human beings
  • 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

Hypernyms for the word rickettsia

• • bacteria
  • bacterium
  • eubacteria
  • eubacterium
  • microorganism
  • true bacteria

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