A rickettsial disease is any of several acute infectious diseases caused by ticks, mites, or body lice infected with rickettsiae. The main types include typhus, spotted fever, Q fever, trench fever, and tsutsugamushi disease.
[n] - infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria
rickettsiosis noun infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria