An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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LEVINTHAL, Claude Walter

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Die Ätiologie der Psittakosis.

Klin. Wschr., 9, 654, 1930.

Discovery of the causal agent of psittacosis, Chlamydia psittaci. Simultaneously A. C. Coles (Lancet, 1930, 1, 1011-12) and R. D. Lillie (Publ. Hlth. Rep., Wash., 1930, 45, 773-78) made the same discovery, and the elementary bodies of psittacosis are known as the Levinthal–Coles–Lillie (LCL) bodies.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Psittacosis, VIROLOGY