rickettsemia
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
rickettsia + -emia
Noun[edit]
rickettsemia (plural rickettsemias)
- (pathology) The presence of rickettsia bacteria in the blood
- 2015 July 18, “Mutations in Ehrlichia chaffeensis Causing Polar Effects in Gene Expression and Differential Host Specificities”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Indeed, we tested this hypothesis recently by examining two of these mutant clones; Ech_0379 and Ech_0660, and the study suggested that the attenuated mutants are useful in reducing the rickettsemia when challenged with wild-type infections [19 ].