THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE HABITS OF THE HOUSE MOUSE AND THE MOUSE MITE (ALLODERMANYSSUS SANGUINEUS) TO THE SPREAD OF RICKETTSIALPOX
Authors: E NICHOLS, M E RINDGE, G G RUSSELL
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1953)

Article1 July 1953THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE HABITS OF THE HOUSE MOUSE AND THE MOUSE MITE (ALLODERMANYSSUS SANGUINEUS) TO THE SPREAD OF RICKETTSIALPOXEDWARD NICHOLS, M.D., F.A.C.P., MILA E. RINDGE, M.D., G. GARDINER RUSSELL, M.D., F.A.C.P.EDWARD NICHOLS, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, MILA E. RINDGE, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, G. GARDINER RUSSELL, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-39-1-92 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIt was prophetic that one of the early and undoubtedly most widely read reports of Rickettsialpox should have appeared inThe New Yorkerin August, 1947.1At the time of the Kew Gardens outbreak in 1946, investigations establishedRickettsia akarias the etiologic agent of the disease and identified the rôle played by the mite,Allodermanyssus sanguineus, and the house mouse in transmitting the disease to man.2, 3, 4Until a small outbreak occurred in an apartment house in Hartford in 1952,5only two other naturally occurring cases, both from Boston,6, 7had been reported beyond the metropolitan limits of...Bibliography1. Reporter at Large: The alerting of the Pomerantz, The New Yorker, Aug. 30, 1947, p. 28. 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(Presented at a meeting of the American Clinical and Climatological Association, October, 1952.)From the Medical Department of the Hartford Hospital and the Bureau of Preventable Diseases, Connecticut State Department of Health. 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