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.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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