Rickettsia
See also: rickettsia
Translingual
Etymology
After Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist, + -ia
Proper noun
Rickettsia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Rickettsiaceae – the rickettsia bacteria.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Negibacteria - subkingdom; Proteobacteria - phylum; Alphaproteobacteria - class; Rickettsiales - order; Rickettsiaceae - family; Rickettsieae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): spotted fever group, typhus group - species groups
- For species see
- For species see
Coordinate terms
- (genus in Rickettsiaceae): Occidentia, Orientia - genera
References
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