rickettsiosis

English

Noun

rickettsiosis (plural rickettsioses)

1. (medicine) Any severe infectious disease caused by several different bacteria of the order Rickettsiales and transmitted by parasitic arthropods.

See also

• Bullis fever
• Lone Star fever
• Q fever
• Rocky Mountain spotted fever
• trench fever
• typhus

Spanish

Noun

rickettsiosis f (plural rickettsiosis)

1. (medicine) rickettsiosis