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

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

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

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