rickettsial disease

rickettsial disease

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(Medicine / Pathology) any of several acute infectious diseases caused by ticks, mites, or body lice infected with rickettsiae. The main types include typhus, spotted fever, Q fever, trench fever, and tsutsugamushi disease

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rickettsial disease - infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria rickettsiosis infectious disease - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact typhus, typhus fever - rickettsial disease transmitted by body lice and characterized by skin rash and high fever spotted fever - any of several severe febrile diseases characterized by skin rashes or spots on the skin 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; characterized by chills and fever and headache and skin lesions that resemble chickenpox trench fever - marked by pain in muscles and joints and transmitted by lice scrub typhus, tsutsugamushi disease - transmitted by larval mites and widespread in Asia