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, rat typhus, endemic typhus

Type of: typhus, typhus fever

• clerical collar
• clericalism
• clericalist
• clerid
• clerid beetle
• Cleridae
• clerihew
• clerisy
• clerk
• clerking
• clerkly
• clerkship
• Clethra
• Clethra alnifolia
• Clethraceae
• Clethrionomys
• Cleveland
• clever
• clever clogs
• clever Dick
• clever-clever
• cleverly
• cleverness
• clevis
• clew