Rickettsia australis

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A bacterium causing a spotted fever that elicits the production of an antibody that is different from the one that reacts with other rickettsial species.

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Words nearby Rickettsia australis

ricker, rickets, Ricketts, rickettsia, Rickettsia akari, Rickettsia australis, Rickettsia conorii, rickettsial, rickettsial disease, rickettsialpox, Rickettsia prowazekii

How to use Rickettsia australis in a sentence

The nightly displays of aurora australis were not very brilliant as the moon was nearing the full.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson
The first religious edifice that was ever reared in the great Terra Australis, by voluntary and private exertion.
Australia, its history and present condition|William Pridden
The Natica australis is a brown or grey shell, and the Natica vitrea is white.
Beautiful Shells of New Zealand|E. G. B. Moss
I noticed, in Lepas pectinata, that the two middle arms are proportionably longer than in L. australis.
A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2)|Charles Darwin

They were the brown-capped rosy finches, called scientifically Leucosticte australis.
Birds of the Rockies|Leander Sylvester Keyser