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- 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