Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various bacteria of the genus Rickettsia, carried as parasites by many ticks, fleas, and lice, that cause diseases such as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans.
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- noun Any of a group of
gram-negative bacteria , of thegenus Rickettsia , carried asparasites byticks ,fleas andlice ; they causetyphus and otherdiseases
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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
Etymologies
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Examples
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But Infante said the Chilean salmon industry relied on the drugs to fight a particular bacteria, rickettsia, which is carried by sea lice and has long plagued the industry.
NYT > Global Home 2008
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But Infante said the Chilean salmon industry relied on the drugs to fight a particular bacteria, rickettsia, which is carried by sea lice and has long plagued the industry.
NYT > Global Home 2008
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After bacteria I will be doing either viruses, rickettsia, fungi or parasites.
Lactobacillus acidophilus Emma Lurie 2007
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DESCRIPTION: An infection occurs when the body as a whole or in part is invaded by a pathogenic agent such as a bacteria, virus, parasite, fungi, or rickettsia microorganisms originating from arthropods such as lice, fleas, mosquitoes, or ticks.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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It was presumed to be due to a virus, and as Australia's only recognized virologist, material from guinea pigs was sent down to him. 8 On histological examination of tissues from an infected mouse he noticed a "vague herringbone pattern" which recalled what he had seen in psittacosis and had read about for rickettsiae, and using Castaneda's stain he had no doubt that the organism was a rickettsia.
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Coypu can carry viruses that result in toxoplasmosis, papillomatosis, rabies, and equine encephalomyelitis; bacteria that cause salmonellosis, paratyphoid, and leptospirosis; protozoans that produce sarcosporidiosis and coccidiosis; and rickettsia.
15 Agouti 1991
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It was originally thought to be rinderpest; it is now believed to be caused by a rickettsia transmitted by cattle ticks.
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Sergent (from Algiers) was the first to describe inclusion bodies, later called rickettsia, in the intestinal cells and faeces of the louse.
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Studies suggest it may take several hours or even days for infected ticks to transmit the rickettsia bacteria, that causes infection.
News for InsideNova.com InsideNova.com 2010
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Studies suggest it may take several hours or even days for infected ticks to transmit the rickettsia bacteria, that causes infection.
News for InsideNova.com InsideNova.com 2010
chained_bear commented on the word rickettsia
"The doctors in the ER thought it could be rickettsial disease, a term that covers a number of infections caused by vectors like ticks, fleas, or contact with animals. Most rickettsia can be controlled with antibiotics...."
—Molly Caldwell Crosby, The American Plague (New York: Berkeley Books, 2006), 211
October 6, 2008