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Definition of Rickettsiosis
1. Noun. Infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria.
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)
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Literary usage of Rickettsiosis
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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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