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nounrickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever
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- zinsser United States bacteriologist who helped develop immunization against typhus fever (1878-1940)
- genus rickettsia can cause typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans
- hans zinsser United States bacteriologist who helped develop immunization against typhus fever (1878-1940)
- rickettsia 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