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Any of a group of parasitic bacteria that live in arthropods (as ticks and mites) and can cause disease if transmitted to human beings
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rickettsia
Word definitions for rickettsia in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
parasitic organism, 1919, named 1916 in Modern Latin by H. da Rocha-Lima in honor of U.S. pathologist H.T. Ricketts (1871-1910), who first identified it in 1909 and died of typhus as a result of his contact with it, + abstract noun ending -ia . The bacteria ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rickettsia is a genus of nonmotile , gram-negative , nonspore-forming , highly pleomorphic bacteria that can present as cocci (0.1 μm in diameter), rods (1–4 μm long), or thread-like (10 μm long). The term rickettsia, named after Howard Taylor Ricketts ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 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
Usage examples of rickettsia.
There is a class of things called Rickettsia which are smaller still and may not be bacteria at all, and there are viruses.
Based on our current level of knowledge, at least seventy different types of bacteria, viruses, rickettsiae, and fungi can be weaponized.
This has to be something more like some of the rickettsiae, with some enyzmatic mechanisms intact so it can feed and reproduce from material it can absorb from the body fluids, outside the cells.