Rickettsia

A discovery that the disease Rocky Mountain spotted fever is spread by cattle ticks and caused by an agent resembling small bacterial cells. The agent, named rickettsia, is intermediate between viruses and bacteria in its nature.
Howard Taylor Ricketts United States 1908
Rickettsia

A discovery that the disease Rocky Mountain spotted fever is spread by cattle ticks and caused by an agent resembling small bacterial cells. The agent, named rickettsia, is intermediate between viruses and bacteria in its nature.