Editing Rickettsia (section)

==Naming==
The genus ''Rickettsia'' is named after [[Howard Taylor Ricketts]] (1871–1910), who studied Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the [[Bitterroot Valley]] of Montana, and eventually died of typhus after studying that disease in Mexico City.

In his early part of career, he undertook research at Northwestern University on blastomycosis. He later worked on Rocky Mountain spotted fever at the University of Chicago and Bitterroot Valley of Montana. He was so devoted  to his research that on several occasions, he  injected himself with pathogens to study their effects. On account of the apparent similarity between Rocky Mountain fever and typhus fever, he became occupied in investigating the latter in Chicago where the disease was epidemic, and became a victim of the epidemic in 1910. His investigations and discoveries added materially to the sum of medical knowledge.