Queensland tick typhus
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Queensland tick typhus
[′kwēnz·lənd ¦tik ′tī·fəs] (medicine)
A benign infectious disease of humans found in rural northeastern Australia, caused by the bacterialike microorganism Rickettsia australis and presumed to be carried by the tick Ixodes holocyclus.
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