Rickettsia
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Rickettsia is a genus of nonmotile, gram-negative, nonspore-forming, highly pleomorphic bacteria that may occur in the forms of cocci, bacilli, or threads. The genus was named after Howard Taylor Rick
Rickettsia rickettsii
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.
Rickettsia
…bacteria that may occur in the forms of cocci (0.1 μm in diameter), bacilli (1–4 μm long), or threads (up to about 10 μm long). The genus was named after Howard Taylor Ricketts in honor of his pioneering work on tick-borne spotted fever. Properly, Rickettsia is the name of a single genus, but the informal term "rickettsia…
Ricketts Howard Taylor 1871 1910