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rickettsial disease

NOUN
  1. infectious disease caused by ticks or mites or body lice infected with rickettsial bacteria

How To Use rickettsial disease In A Sentence

  • Rickettsial diseases are vector-borne illnesses usually carried by ticks, lice, fleas, or mites, and are widely distributed throughout the world.
  • This tick is also a vector of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a rickettsial disease of man.
  • It can easily be confused with malaria, typhoid, rickettsial diseases, haemorrhagic viral fevers (e.g. Lassa), arboviral infections (e.g. dengue), leptospirosis, viral hepatitis and poisoning (e.g. carbon tetrachloride). Chapter 2
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