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
rickettsia [rɪ'ketsɪə]
中文翻译
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n. 发疹伤寒等的病原体
英语释义
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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