#rickettsias__rickettsia  rod-shaped microorganisms resembling both bacteria and viruses; live in biting arthropods and cause disease in vertebrate hosts
  supertype:  eubacteria__eubacterium__truebacteria  a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella
  member of:  family_Rickettsiaceae__Rickettsiaceae  microorganism resembling bacteria inhabiting arthropod tissues but capable of causing disease in vertebrates
     member of:  order_Rickettsiales__Rickettsiales  pleomorphic gram-negative microorganisms
        member of:  division_Eubacteria  one-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella
           member of:  kingdom_Monera__Monera  prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens; because of lack of consensus on how to divide the organisms into phyla informal names are used for the major divisions

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