rickettsia

Noun
  1. any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings

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A scientist examines a rickettsia bacterium under a microscope.