1. Acute infection caused by rickettsia and transmitted by the bite of an infected flea; characterized by fever and chills and muscle aches and a rash
   - murine typhus, urban typhus, endemic typhus

Type of: typhus, typhus fever

• backwardly
• backwardness
• backwards
• backwash
• backwater
• backwoods
• backwoodsman
• backyard
• bacon
• bacon and eggs
• bacon rind
• bacon strip
• bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich
• bacteraemia
• bacteremia
• bacteremic
• bacteria
• bacteria bed
• bacteria family
• bacteria genus
• bacteria order
• bacteria species
• bacteriacide
• bacteriaemia
• bacterial