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rickettsia Hungarian spotted fever Ricettsia Ricketsia Rickettsia infections

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 WordNet 3.0

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Rickettsia is a genus of nonmotile, Gram-negative, nonspore-forming, highly pleomorphic bacteria that may occur in the forms of cocci, bacilli, or threads. Wikipedia

Type of bacteria that causes typhus, among other diseases Wikidata

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. Wiktionary

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Gram-negative bacteria

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rickettsial disease

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