any of several acute infectious diseases caused by ticks, mites, or body lice infected with rickettsiae. The main types include typhus, spotted fever, Q fever, trench fever, and tsutsugamushi disease
Examples of 'rickettsial disease' in a sentence
rickettsial disease
We report eschar-associated rickettsial disease that occurred after a tick bite.
Nanci Silva, Marina E. Eremeeva, Tatiana Rozental, Guilherme S. Ribeiro, ChristopherD. Paddock, Eduardo Antonio G. Ramos, Alexsandra R.M. Favacho, Mitermayer G. Reis,Gregory A. Dasch, Elba R.S. de Lemos, Albert I. Ko 2011, 'Eschar-associated Spotted Fever Rickettsiosis, Bahia, Brazil', Emerging Infectious Diseaseshttps://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/2/10-0859_article. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)