Volume 14, Number 12—December 2008
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Figure 1. Theobald Smith (1859–1934). Smith was a pioneer epidemiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist who made many contributions to medical science. He is best known for his work on Texas cattle fever, in which he and his colleagues discovered the protozoan agent and its means of transmission by ticks.
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