1930 BECKER, Frederick Edward (1888 – )

Tick-borne infections in Colorado. I. The diagnosis and management of infections transmitted by the wood tick.

Becker first clearly described Colorado tick fever as a separate entity and suggested that the causal organism was transmitted by the tick, Dermacentor andersoni.

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