Rocky Mountain spotted fever

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Also Known As	São Paulo fever

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typhus tick fever boutonneuse fever Rocky Mountain wood tick American dog tick lone star tick Rickettsia rickettsii Amblyomma cajennense zoonotic disease malaria tuberculosis plague Ebola bird flu anthrax rabies mpox Lyme disease schistosomiasis

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Howard T. Ricketts

American pathologist

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