Rickettsia

Definition of Rickettsia

• 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 Noun

Morphology of "rickettsia"

• rickettsiae

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