rickettsia
pronunciation
How to pronounce rickettsia in British English:
UK [rɪ'ketsɪə]
How to pronounce rickettsia in American English:
US [rɪ'ketsɪr]
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- Noun:
- any of a group of parasitic bacteria that live in arthropods (as ticks and mites) and can cause disease if transmitted to human beings
Word Origin
- rickettsia (n.)
- parasitic organism, 1919, named 1916 in Modern Latin by H. da Rocha-Lima in honor of U.S. pathologist H.T. Ricketts (1871-1910), who first identified it in 1909 and died of typhus as a result of his contact with it, + abstract noun ending -ia. The bacteria causes typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever, but is unrelated by pathology or etymology to rickets (q.v.), which is the result of vitamin D deficiency. The surname is a development from Rickard, variant of Richard, or else from the diminutive form Ricot.
Example
- 1. Effects of different conditions of inactiaction of rickettsia prowazekii on purification .
- 2. Jinniu district austrian ministry of rickettsia operating electric bicycle .
- 3. Garlic phytoncide contains , in addition to cell killing things , for a variety of viruses , rickettsia role also killed .
- 4. Spotted fever group rickettsia sp. closely related to rickettsia japonica , thailand .
- 5. Studies on the biological and immunological properties of rickettsia tsutsugamushi isolated from skpecimens in the north-east of chian .