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Rickettsia is a genus of small, gram-negative, nonmotile bacteria that are parasitic or mutualistic, often found in blood-sucking arthropods and vertebrate cells. They reproduce by binary fission after inducing phagocytosis in host cells, leading to cell lysis and release of new organisms. The genus includes important human pathogens classified into three groups: spotted fever, typhus, and scrub typhus, with notable diseases such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever and epidemic typhus.

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