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rickettsia

rick·ett·si·a
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    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [ri-ket-see-uh]
    • /rɪˈkɛt si ə/
    • /rɪkˈetsiə/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [ri-ket-see-uh]
    • /rɪˈkɛt si ə/

Definitions of rickettsia word

  • noun plural rickettsia any member of the genus Rickettsia, comprising rod-shaped to coccoid microorganisms that resemble bacteria but can be as small as a large virus and reproduce only inside a living cell, parasitic in fleas, ticks, lice, and mites and transmitted by bite to vertebrate hosts, including humans, causing such severe diseases as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. 1
  • noun plural rickettsia any rickettsia or rickettsialike microorganism of the orders Rickettsiales and Chlamydiales. 1
  • noun rickettsia any of a group of parasitic bacteria that live in the tissues of ticks, mites, and other arthropods, and cause disease when transmitted to man and other animals 0
  • noun rickettsia any of several families (esp. Rickettsiaceae) of Gram-negative bacteria that are the causative agents of certain diseases, as typhus or Rocky Mountain spotted fever: they are transmitted to animals and humans by the bite of certain lice, ticks, etc. in whose bodies they live as parasites 0
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Origin of rickettsia

First appearance:

before 1915
One of the 14% newest English words
1915-20; < New Latin, after Howard T. Ricketts (1871-1910), U.S. pathologist; see -ia

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  • q fever

    an acute, influenzalike disease caused by the rickettsia Coxiella burnetti.

  • scrub typhus

    an acute febrile disease characterized by severe headache, skin rash, chills, and swelling of the lymph nodes, caused by the bite of mites infected with the microorganism Rickettsia tsutsugamushi: occurs mainly in Asia, Australia, and the islands of the western Pacific

  • trench fever

    a recurrent fever, often suffered by soldiers in trenches in World War I, caused by a rickettsia transmitted by the body louse.

  • typhus

    an acute, infectious disease caused by several species of Rickettsia, transmitted by lice and fleas, and characterized by acute prostration, headache, and a peculiar eruption of reddish spots on the body.
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