1) Bacteria 2) Bacterium
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Rickettsia africae Rickettsia akari Rickettsia asiatica Rickettsia australis Rickettsia canadensis Rickettsia conorii Rickettsia cooleyi Rickettsia felis Rickettsia heilongjiangensis Rickettsia helvetica Rickettsia honei Rickettsia hulinii Rickettsia japonica Rickettsia massiliae Rickettsia montanensis Rickettsia parkeri Rickettsia peacockii Ricke...
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(from the article `rickettsia`) ...exceptions, since humans are the only host of proven importance. The other rickettsial infections occur primarily in animals, which serve as ...
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any member of three genera (Rickettsia, Coxiella, Rochalimaea) of bacteria in the family Rickettsiaceae. The rickettsiae are rod-shaped or variably ... [7 related articles]
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A member of a group of microorganisms that (like viruses) require other living cells for growth but (like bacteria) use oxygen, have metabolic enzymes and cell walls, and are susceptible to antibiotics. Rickettsiae cause a series of diseases (see rickettsial diseases). ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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(rĭ-ket´se-ә) a genus of bacteria made up of small, gram-negative, rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that multiply only inside host cells. They are found inside tissue cells or free-floating in the intestines of lice, fleas, ticks, and mites, which transmit them when they bite larger animals. R. cono...
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(rĭ-ket´se-ә) pl. rickett´siae An individual organism of the family Rickettsiaceae.
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Genus of Gram negative bacteria responsible for a number of insect-borne diseases of man (including scrub typus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever). Obligate intracellular parasites.
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Plant disease agents belonging to the Schizomycetes group of bacteria, which may cause virus-like symptoms.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: ri-ket′sē-ă Definitions: 1. A genus of bacteria (order Rickettsiales) containing small (nonfilterable), often pleomorphic, coccoid to rod-shaped, gram-negative organisms that usually occur intracytoplasmically in lice, fleas, ticks, and mites but do not grow in cell-free media; pathogenic species infect hum...
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Rickettsia: A member of a group of microorganisms that (like viruses) require other living cells for growth but (like bacteria) use oxygen, have metabolic enzymes and cell walls, and are susceptible to antibiotics. Rickettsiae cause a series of diseases named for the American pathologist Howard Ricketts who discovered that ticks spread Rocky Mounta...
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n] - 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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noun 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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