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Word: andersoni (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1937-1937
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Usage:

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is caused by a microscopic speck which may be an especially tiny bacterium or an especially big virus. Bacteriologists cannot decide which. It is transmitted to man by a tick called Dermacentor andersoni, which in an unknown manner migrated and adapted itself to the greenery of the Appalachian foothills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tick | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

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