RICKETTSIAE

RICKETTSIA

rickettsia

(noun) 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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

rickettsiae

plural of rickettsia

Source: Wiktionary



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PEOPLE

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According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.

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