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Definition of Rickettsiosis
1. Noun. Infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria.
Exact synonyms: Rickettsial Disease
Generic synonyms: Infectious Disease
Specialized synonyms: Typhus, Typhus Fever, Spotted Fever, Q Fever, Rickettsialpox, Trench Fever, Scrub Typhus, Tsutsugamushi Disease
Generic synonyms: Infectious Disease
Specialized synonyms: Typhus, Typhus Fever, Spotted Fever, Q Fever, Rickettsialpox, Trench Fever, Scrub Typhus, Tsutsugamushi Disease
Definition of Rickettsiosis
1. Noun. (medicine) any severe infectious disease caused by several different bacteria of the order ''Rickettsiales'' and transmitted by parasitic arthropods ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Rickettsiosis
1. Infection with rickettsiae. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rickettsiosis
Literary usage of Rickettsiosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biotechnology: Building on Farmers' Knowledge by Joske F. G. Bunders, Bertus Haverkort, Wim Hiemstra (1996)
"The literature cites a wide range of diseases traditionally treated by cauterisation:
anthrax, trypanosomiasis, rickettsiosis, epilepsy, botulism, scabies, ..."
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