rickettsia

Noun
  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 (synset 101374124)
    is a type of: eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria - a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
    belongs to: family rickettsiaceae, rickettsiaceae - microorganism resembling bacteria inhabiting arthropod tissues but capable of causing disease in vertebrates

Found on Word Lists

Other Searches