Essays Tagged: "Ricketts"

What Is Rickettsia.

What Is Rickettsia?Rickettsia are bacteria, which are obligate intracellular parasites many disease-causing, ... ertebrates and are transmitted by bloodsucking parasitic arthropods such as fleas , lice and ticks. Rickettsias are named after their discoverer, the American pathologist Harold Taylor Ricketts, who d ... Harold Taylor Ricketts, who died of typhus in Mexico after confirming the infectious agent of that rickettsial disease.Rickettsias unlike other bacteria, but like viruses, they require a living host ...

(3 pages) 92 0 4.1 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Microbiology

Random Facts about the Civil War.

Bull Run Generals (Won by Confederates)Union- RickettsConfederate-Stonewall JacksonGettysburg Generals (Won by Union)Union- Meade, ReynoldsConfede ...

(4 pages) 54 4 2.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

Celibacy and the Catholic Church Even though I was born

being unmarried and total abstinence of sex. I conducted an interview with Psychologist Dr. Ricketts. I asked Dr. Ricketts if celibacy could have played a role in the Catholic Priests sexually ... e dealing with stress because sexual intercourse can comfort the stress that individual is feeling (Ricketts).I believe that obviously remaining celibate in the priesthood can be stressful because of ...

(8 pages) 1791 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity