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rickettsiosis

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Infection with or disease caused by rickettsiae.

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  • noun medicine any severe infectious disease caused by several different bacteria of the order Rickettsiales and transmitted by parasitic arthropods

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  • noun infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria

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Examples

  • · A hemorragical syndrome indicates meningococcemia, or hemorragic fever, or in an endemic area, relapsing fever, rickettsiosis, dengue ...

    Chapter 6 1993

  • Given this, analysis of the survival strategies used by the bacterium within infected skin is critical for our understanding of rickettsiosis.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Patricia Renesto et al. 2008

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hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. infectious disease

hyponyms (8)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. Q fever
  2. rickettsialpox
  3. scrub typhus
  4. spotted fever
  5. trench fever
  6. tsutsugamushi disease
  7. typhus
  8. typhus fever

cross-references (4)

Cross-references

  1. Q fever
  2. Rocky Mountain spotted fever
  3. trench fever
  4. typhus

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