Rickettsia

See also: rickettsia

Translingual

Tick hemolymph cells infected with Rickettsia rickettsii

Etymology

Named after American pathologist Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871–1910) +‎ -ia (taxonomic suffix).

Proper noun

Rickettsia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Rickettsiaceae – very small bacteria that include the causative agents of typhus and various other febrile diseases in humans. Like viruses, many of them can only grow inside living cells, and they are frequently transmitted by mites, ticks, or lice.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Negibacteria – subkingdom; Pseudomonadota – phylum; Alphaproteobacteria – class; Rickettsiales - order; Rickettsiaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Rickettsia prowazekii - type species; Rickettsia rickettsii, Rickettsia typhi - selected other species

Coordinate terms

• (genus in Rickettsiaceae): Occidentia, Orientia - genera

Derived terms

• Rickettsiaceae
• Rickettsiales
• Rickettsieae

Descendants

• → English: rickettsia

References

• Rickettsia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rickettsia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Rickettsia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Rickettsia in the Genome Taxonomy Database