rickettsia English

Meaning rickettsia meaning

What does rickettsia mean?

rickettsia

— 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

Synonyms rickettsia synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as rickettsia?

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Rickett’s organism