Definition of "rickettsial" []

• Relating to rickettsia. (adjective)

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• "Monroe, CDC's director of the division of viral and rickettsial diseases."
• "He also asserted that he had "working knowledge of the former U.S. and former BW [bioweapons] programs, wet and dry BW agents, large-scale production of bacterial, rickettsial, and viral BW pathogens and toxins ....""
• "It can easily be confused with malaria, typhoid, rickettsial diseases, haemorrhagic viral fevers (e.g. Lassa), arboviral infections (e.g. dengue), leptospirosis, viral hepatitis and poisoning (e.g. carbon tetrachloride)."