Several species of ticks, including the brown dog tick and the American dog tick, appear to carry the parasite, and both dogs ...

RMSF is a potentially fatal bacterial infection caused by Rickettsia rickettsii bacteria, transmitted to humans through the ...

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever/ Rickettsia (RMSF) Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever/Rickettsia (RMSF) is most often transmitted by the American dog tick in the Eastern, Central and Western United States; by ...

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a bacterial infection spread by the bite of an infected tick, the CDC reports. The most common ticks that transmit the disease are the American dog, Rocky Mountain ...