Usually means: Bacteria causing typhus, spotted fevers.
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  1. rickettsiae: Merriam-Webster
  2. rickettsiae: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rickettsiae: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rickettsiae: Vocabulary.com
  5. rickettsiae: Wiktionary
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  1. rickettsiae: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. rickettsiae: Medical dictionary

(Note: See rickettsia as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rickettsia)

noun:  Any of a group of gram-negative bacteria, of the genus Rickettsia, carried as parasites by ticks, fleas and lice, that cause typhus and other diseases.
noun:  (informal) Any bacterium of the order Rickettsiales.
▸ Also see rickettsia


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