different between typhus vs rickettsia

English

Etymology

From New Latin typhus, from Ancient Greek ????? (tûphos, “fever, stupor”), from ???? (túph?, “to smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhubh-, extended form of *dheu- (“scatter like dust”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?f?s/
• Rhymes: -a?f?s

Noun

typhus (usually uncountable, plural typhuses)

1. (pathology) One of several similar diseases, characterised by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsia bacteria. Not to be confused with typhoid fever.

Synonyms

• camp fever, gaol fever, hospital fever, jail fever, prison fever, putrid fever, ship fever

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• Typhus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Typhoid fever on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek; see above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.fys/

Noun

typhus m (plural typhus)

1. typhus

Further reading

• “typhus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From translingual Rickettsia (genus name), from Howard Taylor Ricketts, equivalent to Ricketts +? -ia.

Noun

rickettsia (plural rickettsias or rickettsiae)

1. Any of a group of gram-negative bacteria, of the genus Rickettsia, carried as parasites by ticks, fleas and lice; they cause typhus and other diseases

Hypernyms

• Rickettsia (genus)
• Rickettsieae (tribus)
• Rickettsiaceae (familia)
• Rickettsiales (order)

Derived terms

• rickettsial
• rickettsialpox
• rickettsiology

Anagrams

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Spanish

Noun

rickettsia f (plural rickettsias)

1. rickettsia

Further reading

• rickettsia on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es