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Definition of RICKETTSIA
noun : RICKETTSIA
Source:WordNet 3.1
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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 ;
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