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Noun Concept
SYL
Rickettsia
EN
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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IS A
EN
eubacteria
EN
taxonomic group
PART OF
Rickettsiaceae
DERIVATION
EN
rickettsial
GRAM STAINING
EN
Gram-negative bacteria
HAS EFFECT
EN
rickettsial disease
EN
rickettsialpox
EN
typhus
NAMED AFTER
Howard Taylor Ricketts
PARENT TAXON
Rickettsiaceae
TAXON RANK
EN
genus
TAXONOMIC TYPE
Rickettsia prowazekii
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Rickettsia

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