| NOUN | state | rickettsial disease, rickettsiosis | infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria |
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| Meaning | infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria. | |
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| Synonym | rickettsiosis | |
| Narrower | 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 | |
| spotted fever | Any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin | |
| trench fever | marked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice | |
| tsutsugamushi disease, scrub typhus | transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia | |
| typhus, typhus fever | rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever | |
| Broader | infectious disease | A disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact |
| Spanish | rickettsiosis | |
| Catalan | rickettsiosi | |
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