ROSS, Sir Ronald
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On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial blood.Brit med. J., 2, 1786-88, 1897.Ross proved that the mosquito was responsible for the transmission of malaria. On 20 August 1897, he found Laveran’s Plasmodium in the stomach of the Anopheles mosquito after it had fed on the blood of malaria patients. See also the earlier paper in the same journal, 1897, 1, 251-55. Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Malaria, PARASITOLOGY › Plasmodia › P. vivax, P. falciparum, P. malariae, P. ovale, and P. knowlesi |
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The rôle of the mosquito in the evolution of the malarial parasite.Lancet, 2, 488-89, 1898.Ross provided the last link in the chain demonstrating the complete life-cycle of the parasite of bird malaria. He found that mosquitoes which had fed on malaria-infected birds, and which had allowed the parasites to develop and lodge in their salivary glands, could then infect healthy birds, which in turn became malarious. Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1902. Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Malaria, PARASITOLOGY › Plasmodia, VETERINARY MEDICINE › Veterinary Parasitology |
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Mosquito brigades and how to organise them.New York & London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1902.Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Malaria |