Insects and Diseases: A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common DiseasesDoane, Rennie Wilbur
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Insects and Diseases: A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
Doane, Rennie Wilbur
Insect pests; Insects as carriers of disease
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Naturalist's Explorations Around Ruwenzori, with an _Account of the
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3, Mar., 1909. Abstracted from "From Ruwenzori to the Congo" by
above author.
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IX, 1903 to 1908. Studies and experiments with the trypanosomes and
flies concerned in this disease. Later articles by this commission
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studies and experiments with trypanosomes and tsetse-flies, etc.
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ROCKY MOUNTAIN FEVER AND TICKS
ANDERSON, J.F. Spotted Fever (Tick Fever) of the Rocky Mountains.
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Distribution, ætiology, etc. Believes that ticks are responsible
for the transmission of the disease.
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Ex. Stn._, 1908. Sums up Ricketts' finding; notes on life-history
in laboratory and field.
KING, W.W. Experimental Transmission of Rocky Mountain Fever by
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Ser._, 21, July 27, 1906, pp. 863-864. Conveyed this fever from one
guinea-pig to another by means of the tick.
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of the Wood-tick (_Dermacentor occidentalis_). _Jour. Amer. Med.
Assn._, Vol. 47, Aug., 1906, p. 358. Guinea-pig successfully
inoculated by means of tick.
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conducted and studies made. Takes position that these experiments
connect the tick with the transmission of the fever.
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1908. Occurrence and distribution of the disease; review of the
various theories in regard to its transmission. P.E. Jones of Salt
Lake believes it is transmitted by mosquitoes.
STILES, C.W. A Zoölogical Investigation Into the Cause,
Transmission and Source of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. _Hyg. Lab.
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the parasite that had been recorded by others, and finds no
evidence to indicate that the ticks transmit the disease.
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