rickettsial disease
Noun
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Infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria (synset 114164263)
is a type of: infectious disease - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contactsubtypes:
- 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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