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Howard Ricketts  

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  • Howard Taylor Ricketts was an American pathologist and an ambitious pioneer of infectious disease who became renowned as the first to establish the identity of the infectious organism that causes Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The groundbreaking efforts of Ricketts and his research team was one of the earliest collaborations between physicians and entomologists, and the results have had an enormous impact on the often interdisciplinary field of epidemiology. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Ricketts, Howard (1871–1910)]

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