RICKETTSIA is a
10
letter word starting with
R
and ending with
A
Definitions & Synonyms
noun -
Rickettsia is a type of bacterium that lives in lice, fleas, ticks, and mites, responsible for causing diseases such as typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in humans.
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