Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Authors: G. Gill Richards
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1933)

Article1 March 1933Rocky Mountain Spotted FeverG. GILL RICHARDS, M.D.G. GILL RICHARDS, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-6-9-1207 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptRocky Mountain spotted fever may be described as an acute tick-born infectious disease. It was formerly thought to be indigenous to the West where it is most prevalent in the states of Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, and Montana, but recently cases have been reported from the Atlantic states by Badger, Dyer and Rumreich1 of the United States Public Health Service. These cases, of which there were forty in Maryland alone in 1931, are clinically and immunologically identical with those seen in the West.The disease probably existed in the Rocky Mountain region for years before the coming of the white man....Bibliography1 BADGERDYERRUMREICH LFREA: Infection of Rocky Mountain spotted fever type; identification in eastern part of United States, Pub. Health Rep., 1931, xlvi, 463-470. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2 SWEETSPRINGERCOLLISTERFAIRCHILDBOWERSDUBOISFIGGINSZIPF CLWDGRMLCJKDWH WOOD MW (through , U. S. A.,); Spotted fever as reported from Idaho. Report of the Surgeon-General, U. S. Army, for period ending July 1, 1896. Wash., D. C., Govt. Print. O., 1896, pp. 60-65. Google Scholar3 MAXEY EE: Rocky Mountain spotted (tick) fever; with special reference to causal factors, mortality and geographical distribution in Idaho, Med. Sentinel, 1908, xvi, 666-678. Google Scholar4 MCCULLOUGH GT: Spotted fever, Med. Sentinel, 1902, x, 225-228. Google Scholar5 WILSONCHOWNING LBWM: The so-called "spotted fever" of the Rocky Mountains, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1902, xxxix, 131-136. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6 ANDERSON JF: Spotted fever (tick fever) of the Rocky Mountains, Bulletin 14, Marine Hospital Service Hygiene Lab., 1903. Google Scholar7 RICKETTS HT: The study of "Rocky Mountain spotted fever" (tick fever?) by means of animal inoculations, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1906, xlvii, 33-36. The transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever by the bite of the wood-tick (Dermacentor occidentalis), ibid., 1906, xlvii, 358. Further observations on Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Dermacentor occidentalis, ibid., 1906, xlvii, 1067-1069. The rôle of the wood-tick (Dermacentor occidentalis) in Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ibid., 1907, xlix, 24-27. Further experiments with the wood-tick in relation to Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ibid., 1907, xlix, 1278-1281. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8 MCCALLA LP: Direct transmission from man to man of the Rocky Mountain spotted (tick) fever, Med. Sentinel, 1908, xvi, 87-88. Google Scholar9 FRICKS LD: Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a report of laboratory investigations of the virus, Pub. Health Rep., 1916, xxxi, 516-521. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10 WOLBACH SB: Rocky Mountain spotted fever, pathology and etiology, Third Bien. Report Mont. State Bd. Ent., 1919, 55. Google Scholar11 NOGUCHI H: Experimental prophylactic inoculation against Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Northwest Med., 1923, xxii, 301-303. Google Scholar12 SPENCERPARKER RRRR: Rocky Mountain spotted fever; viability of the virus in animal tissues, Pub. Health Rep., 1924, xxxix, 55-57. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Salt Lake City, Utah*Read before the American College of Physicians at San Francisco, California, April 7, 1932. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byRocky Mountain Spotted Fever 1 March 1933Volume 6, Issue 9Page: 1207-1211KeywordsInfectious diseasesMedical servicesRocky Mountain spotted fever ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 March 1933 PDF downloadLoading ...