Observations on the Virus and Means of Transmission of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
| Autor: | B. H. Lamb, H. T. Ricketts |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Infectious Diseases. 189:943-955 |
| ISSN: | 1537-6613 0022-1899 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/infdis/189.5.943 |
| Popis: | Investigations into the nature of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever its etiology and method of transmission, have been carried on by the writer since April, 1906. Previous to these investigations the disease had been studied extensively by Wilson and Chowning,1 and to some degree also by members of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. I shall refer to these investigations only to say that Wilson and Chowning described the disease as a pyroplasmosis, and advanced the important theory that man is infected by the bite of the "wood-tick', which infests the mountainous regions of Montana and adjacent Rocky Mountain States. They furnished no experimental proof of the correctness of the theory. Following the report of Wilson and Chowning, Stiles,2 of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service studied the disease and failed utterly to find the pyroplasma of the former investigators. Stiles discredited also the theory of transmission by the tick, but without experimental evidence to refute the theory. This was the status in relation to the etiology and means of transmission of the disease when my studies were undertaken. The results which I have obtained have been described briefly in three communications to the Journal of the American Medical Association.* The essential points presented in these articles are the following |
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