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Meaning of rickettsia

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

rickettsia

noun

Definitions

  1. Any of a group of gram-negative bacteria, of the genus Rickettsia, carried as parasites by ticks, fleas and lice; they cause typhus and other diseases

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