Bacterium
rickettsia typhi
Subclass of:
Rickettsia
Definitions related to rickettsia typhi:
  • A species of aerobic, Gram negative, rod and cocci shaped bacteria assigned to the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is obligately intracellular, motile and transmitted to humans by a tick or flea host. R. typhi is a pathogen that causes murine typhus.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any bacterial organism that can be assigned to the species Rickettsia typhi.
    CDISC Terminology
    Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
  • The etiologic agent of murine typhus.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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