mild infectious rickettsial disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Rickettsia transmitted to humans by the bite a mite that lives on rodents; characterized by chills and fever and headache and skin lesions that resemble chickenpox

リケッチア属の細菌によって引き起こされ、齧歯類に寄生するダニの咬傷によって人に伝染する軽度の感染性リケッチア症。寒気、発熱、頭痛、水痘に似た皮膚病変が特徴。