Howard Taylor Ricketts
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Howard Taylor Ricketts was an American pathologist after whom the bacteria family Rickettsiaceae and the order Rickettsiales are named.
Ricketts Howard Taylor 1871 1910
Murinae
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The Old World rats and mice, part of the subfamily Murinae in the family Muridae, comprise at least 519 species. Members of this subfamily are called murines. In terms of species richness, this subfam
Howard Taylor Ricketts
…was named after him. After this eponymous genus, the larger family and order were given their names. In 1910, Ricketts became interested in a strain of murine-carried typhus known as tabardillo due to a major outbreak in Mexico City, and the apparent similarity of the disease to spotted fever. Days after…
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