Rickettsia

== Translingual == === Etymology === From English Ricketts (surname, named after American pathologist Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871–1910)) +‎ -ia. === Proper noun === Rickettsia f A taxonomic genus within the family Rickettsiaceae – the rickettsias; very small bacteria that include the causative agents of typhus and various other febrile diseases in humans. Like viruses, many of them can only grow inside living cells, and they are frequently transmitted by mites, ticks, or lice. ==== Hypernyms ==== (genus): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Negibacteria – subkingdom; Pseudomonadota – phylum; Alphaproteobacteria – class; Rickettsiales – order; Rickettsiaceae – family ==== Hyponyms ==== (genus): Rickettsia prowazekii - type species; Rickettsia rickettsii, Rickettsia typhi - selected other species ==== Coordinate terms ==== (genus in Rickettsiaceae): Occidentia, Orientia - genera ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Arabic: رِكِتْسِيَا (rikitsiyā), رِيكِتْسِيَّة (rīkitsiyya), رِيكِتْسِيَا (rīkitsiyā) → Belarusian: рыке́тсія (rykjétsija) → Catalan: rickèttsia → English: rickettsia → French: rickettsie → German: Rickettsie → Japanese: リケッチア (riketchia), リケッツィア (rikettsia), リケッチャ (riketcha), リッケットシア (rikkettoshia) → Polish: riketsja → Romanian: rickettsia → Russian: рикке́тсия (rikkétsija) → Spanish: rickettsia → Ukrainian: рике́тсія (rykétsija) === References === Rickettsia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Rickettsia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Rickettsia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Rickettsia in the Genome Taxonomy Database