Rickettsia
nounid
119241·updated May 18, 2026verified
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
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Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- plural
- Rickettsias
- possessive
- Rickettsia's
- pluralpossessive
- Rickettsias'
Framework definitions
- §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
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