ricketsialpox |
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| 1. | [ noun ] (medicine) 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 | |
| Related terms: | rickettsial_disease | |
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rickettsialpox rickettsial rickettsia Rickettsiales rickettsias Rickettsiaceae rickettsiosis |
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