American Mountain Tick-Fever and Spotted Fever of the Rocky Mountains-Comparative Epidemography
Authors: Noxon Toomey
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1931)

Article1 November 1931American Mountain Tick-Fever and Spotted Fever of the Rocky Mountains-Comparative EpidemographyNOXON 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/10.7326/0003-4819-5-5-601 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptParallel study of mountain fever and spotted fever affords a most useful method for ascertaining their characteristics, for establishing comparisons and differentials between them, and for determining their respective positions in the social, economic and medical life of our times. Indeed, one might be led to take for granted that inasmuch as both diseases have the same arthropod vector, epidemiology, parasitology and prophylaxis would be identical for the two. 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