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English Dictionary: rickettsia by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rickettsia
n
  1. 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
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