Control of the Tick Borne Diseases—Methods and Economics
Authors: Noxon Toomey
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1932)

Article1 June 1932Control of the Tick Borne Diseases—Methods and EconomicsNOXON TOOMEY, M.D., F.A.C.P.NOXON TOOMEY, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-5-12-1513 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptA species of tick was the first arthropod proved to be a vector of disease caused by microgamic life. The relation first discovered did not involve the human body, but that of cattle. However, the discovery did afford the foundation for suppositions, based on analogy, that were soon extended to the theory of infectious diseases in man, with results that have afforded a scientific insight into the transmission of a great many of the most serious infectious diseases of man.Apart from any consideration of ticks as possible vectors of disease to man, the disease-communicating tick of cattle was at...References Collateral References6 WILSONCHOWNING LBWM: Spotted fever of Montana. Northwest Lancet, 1902, xxii, 440-442; and Med. Sentinel, 1902, x, 238-239. Google Scholar17 CRAIG CF: The relation of the so-called "Piroplasma hominis" and certain degenerative changes in the erythrocytes. Am. Med., 1904, viii, 1016-1017. Google Scholar20 STILES CW: Preliminary report upon a zoological investigation into the cause, transmission, and source of the so-called spotted fever of the Rocky Mountains. 2d Bien. Rep. Montana St. Bd. Health, 1905, Pp. 160-162. 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