rickettsial disease

Noun
  1. is a type of: infectious disease - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
    subtypes:
    • typhus, typhus fever - rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever
    • spotted fever - any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin
    • q fever - an acute disease resembling influenza
    • rickettsialpox - mild infectious rickettsial disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Rickettsia transmitted to humans by the bite a mite that lives on rodents; characterized by chills and fever and headache and skin lesions that resemble chickenpox
    • trench fever - marked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice
    • scrub typhus, tsutsugamushi disease - transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia
    same as: rickettsiosis

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