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noun
Any severe infectious disease caused by several different bacteria of the order Rickettsiales and transmitted by parasitic arthropods.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: rickettsial disease
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: infectious disease
Narrower terms: typhus, typhus fever, spotted fever, Q fever, rickettsialpox, trench fever, tsutsugamushi disease, scrub typhus
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