rickettsia

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

Roots

rickettsrickett- · English · named for pathologist H.T. Ricketts ia-sia · Latin · forming genus name

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