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order Rickettsiales

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Noun1.order Rickettsiales - pleomorphic Gram-negative microorganisms
animal order - the order of animals
division Eubacteria - one-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella
family Rickettsiaceae, Rickettsiaceae - microorganism resembling bacteria inhabiting arthropod tissues but capable of causing disease in vertebrates
Chlamydiaceae, family Chlamydiaceae - Gram-negative parasites in warm-blooded vertebrates


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Tick-borne rickettsioses are infections caused by obligate intracellular gram-negative bacteria of the spotted fever group (SFG) in the genus Rickettsia and the order Rickettsiales.
To the Editor: Rickettsioses, or typhoid diseases, are caused by obligate intracellular bacteria of the order Rickettsiales.
and to remove the family Bartonellaceae from the order Rickettsiales.
 
 
 
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