Rickettsia
See also: 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