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rickettsia

/rik'etsiә/

📖 中文释义

  1. n. 立克次氏体
  2. [医] 立克次氏体
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. n. 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