any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings
双语例句
1. Rickettsia - like organism was an important pathogen which caused the fish disease.
类立克次体是导致鱼类病害的重要病原体.
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2. Methods Isolation of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi by animal, serology indentification, rest of virulence and immunity.
方法动物分离,血清分型, 毒力测定及免疫力试验.
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用作名词 (n.)
It is caused by Rickettsia rickettsii and spread by ticks of the genus Dermacentor. 该病由立克次氏体引起，由革蜱属的蜱类传播。
