An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

RICKETTS, Howard Taylor

5 entries
  • 2564

Infection, immunity and serum therapy.

Chicago, IL: A. M. A. Press, 1906.


Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY, IMMUNOLOGY › Immunization, INFECTIOUS DISEASE
  • 5378

The transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever by the bite of the wood-tick (Dermacentor occidentalis).

J. Amer. med. Assoc., 47, 358, 1906.

Ricketts (who himself died of typhus) demonstrated that the wood tick Dermacentor andersoni is a vector of Rocky Mountain spotted fever.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American West, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Rickettsial Infections, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tick-Borne Diseases › Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
  • 5379

A micro-organism which apparently has a specific relationship to Rocky Mountain spotted fever. A preliminary report.

J. Amer. med. Assoc., 52, 379-80, 1909.

Description of the causal organism, in blood smears.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Rickettsial Infections, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tick-Borne Diseases › Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
  • 5380

The relation of typhus fever (tabardillo) to Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Arch. intern. Med., 5, 361-70, 1910.

Ricketts and Wilder differentiated Rocky Mountain spotted fever and typhus.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Mexico, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Lice-Borne Diseases › Typhus, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tick-Borne Diseases › Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
  • 5380.1

The etiology of the typhus fever (tabardillo) of Mexico City. A further preliminary report.

J. Amer. med. Assoc., 54, 1373-75, 1910.

Demonstration of the causal organism of typhus.



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Rickettsiales › Rickettsia › Rickettsia prowazekii , COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Mexico, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Lice-Borne Diseases › Typhus