Howard Taylor Ricketts

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University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

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Bacteriology

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Taylor_Ricketts

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"Howard Ricketts"

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1871-1910. American pathologist who discovered the vector of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever was the Rocky Mountain wood tick. He died of typhus while studying this disease in an outbreak in Mexico. The genus Rickettsiae is named after him.

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Ludwig Hektoen

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Chicago

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