Definition of Rickettsias. Meaning of Rickettsias. Synonyms of Rickettsias

- spotted fever. Properly, Rickettsia is the name of a single genus, but the informal term "rickettsia", plural "rickettsias," usually not capitalised...
- Rickettsia sibirica is a species of Rickettsia. This bacterium is the etiologic agent of North Asian tick typhus, which is also known as Siberian tick...
- Rickettsia rickettsii is a Gram-negative, intracellular, cocco-bacillus bacterium that was first discovered in 1902. Having a reduced genome, the bacterium...
- birds, rodents, and hares and can be the cause of viral disease and rickettsias. Nymphs are often transmitted from one place to another by migrating...
- group of rickettsias". Health Lab Sci. 2: 135–141. PMID 14318051.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) "Rickettsia parkeri rickettsiosis"...
- causative agent of Q fever. The genus Coxiella is morphologically similar to Rickettsia, but with a variety of genetic and physiological differences. C. burnetii...
- 1935) Rake 1957 emend. Everett et al. 1999 Synonyms Rickettsia trachomae [sic] Busacca 1935 Rickettsia trachomatis (Busacca 1935) Foley and Parrot 1937 Chlamydozoon...
- Rickettsia prowazekii is a species of gram-negative, obligate intracellular parasitic, aerobic bacilliform bacteria of class Alphaproteobacteria that is...
- Rickettsia typhi is a small, aerobic, obligate intracellular, rod shaped gram negative bacterium. It belongs to the typhus group of the Rickettsia genus...
- by specific types of bacterial infection. Epidemic typhus is caused by Rickettsia prowazekii spread by body lice, scrub typhus is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi...