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rickettsia

/rɪ'kɛtsiə/

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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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eubacteria eubacterium true bacteria

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