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Rickettsia

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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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

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Unknown—authoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Rickettsias
possessive: Rickettsia's
pluralpossessive: Rickettsias'

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