Howard Taylor Ricketts (* 9 February 1871 in Findlay, Ohio; "† 1910 in Mexico city, Mexico) were an US-American pathologist.

It studied medicine at the universities of Nebraska and Chicago. Subsequently, it examined infections, which will transfer from animals as transportation landlords to humans. First it employed with the Rocky Mountains typhus fever (Rickettsia rickettsii) and proved themselves the exciter in the blood of infected humans and in the Viehzeckenart active as vector. 1909 it traveled after Mexico city, in order to examine the typhus fever (Rickettsia prowazecki). It infected and died themselves at the illness.

The Rickettsien settled between bacteria and viruses is designated after it.

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