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Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871-1910) was an American pathologist after whom the Rickettsiaceae family and the Rickettsiales are named.
In the earlier part of his career, Ricketts undertook research at Northwestern University on blastomycosis and later at the University of Chicago on and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Ricketts and his assistant discovered that the agent that carried the bacillus for the latter was the Rocky Mountain wood tick (the American dog tick is also a carrier). Ricketts...
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