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1,279 entries match Plagues & Epidemics [C01.252]
1931
#5396.2
Typhus fever. A virus of the typhus type derived from fleas collected from wild rats.
Murine typhus shown to be caused by an organism later named Rickettsia mooseri, transmitted by fleas from rats to man. With A. Rumreich and L. F. Badger.
1931
#5464
The use of mice in tests of immunity against yellow fever.
Intraperitoneal protection test.
1931
#5475
Experimental studies of dengue.
Proof that Aëdes albopictus is a vector of dengue. See also the earlier paper in the same journal, 1930, 41, 215-29. With J. H. St. John and F. H. K. Reynolds.
1931
#5227.1
Entwurf einer Geschichte der ansteckenden Geschlechtskrankheiten.
1931
#5468
Yellow fever: an epidemiological and historical study of its place of origin. Edited by Laura Armistead Carter and Wade Hampton Frost.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1932
#2347
The chemistry of tuberculosis. Second edition.
1932
#2414.1
Studies in the serology of syphilis. VII. A new flocculation test for the serum diagnosis of syphilis.
Eagle flocculation test.
1932
#5178
Tularemia: Accurate and earlier diagnosis by means of the intradermal reaction.
Skin test for the diagnosis of tularemia. Digital facsimile from Jstor at this link.
1932
#5179
Serum treatment of tularemia.
Foshay devised a serum for the treatment of tularemia.
1932
#5465
Vaccination against yellow fever with immune serum and virus fixed for mice.
These workers devised an immune serum for prophylactic inoculation against yellow fever. With S. F. Kitchen and W. D. M. Lloyd.
1932
#5465.1
Untersuchungen über das Verhalten des Gelbfiebervirus in der Gewebekultur. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Kultivierbarkeit.
Yellow fever virus grown in tissue culture.
1932
#6733
Hervorragende Tropenärzte in Wort und Bild.
1932
#5257
Zur Weiterentwicklung synthetisch dargestellter Malariamittel. I. Ueber die chemotherapeutische Wirkung des Atebrin.
Introduction of atebrin (mepacrine, quinacrine).
1932
#12051
Le pèlerinage de la Mecque au point de vue religieux, social et sanitaire par le docteur Duguet. Avec un préface de Justin Godart.
"Duguet also served as inspector general of health services of Lebanon and Syria under the French Mandate and was responsible for the medical supervision of the pilgrimage to Mecca. The first part of the book gives so…
1932
#12586
A study of monkey-malaria, and its experimental transmission to man.
Das Gupta and his supervisor Robert Knowles first described Plasmodium knowlesi as a distinct species, and as a potential cause of human malaria in 1932 when they described the morphology of the parasite in macaque bl…
1933
#4656
Encephalitis: studies on experimental transmission.
Isolation of the St. Louis encephalitis virus. With C. Armstrong and H. A. McCordock.
1933
#2429
The history and epidemiology of syphilis.
1933
#5151
Sur la valeur et la durée de l’immunité conférée par l’anatoxine tétanique dans la vaccination de l’homme contre le tétanos.
Tetanus toxoid first employed in the immunization of humans.
1933
#5494
A virus obtained from influenza patients.
Smith, Andrewes, and Laidlaw first isolated the influenza A virus in humans. They successfully infected ferrets with filtered throat-washings from influenzal patients by intranasal instillation.
1933 –1934
#5495
Influenza. 2 vols.
Annals of the Pickett Thomson Research Lab., Monograph 16. "In two massive volumes Thomson and Thomson reviewed the literature on influenza up to 1934" (Spink).
1933
#5466
A yellow fever protection test in mice by intracerebral injection.
Intracerebral protection test.
1933
#5221
A sixth venereal disease. Climatic bubo, lymphogranuloma inguinale, esthioméne, chronic ulcer and elephantiasis of the genito-ano-rectal region, inflammatory stricture of the rectum.
In this exhaustive review of the literature, Stannus considered all the conditions he discussed to be different manifestations of infection by the same organisms – the agent causing lymphogranuloma venereum. Includes …
1933
#5264
The history of malaria in the Roman Campagna from ancient times. Edited and enlarged by Anna Celli-Fraentzel.
Reprinted New York, 1977.
1934
#4657
Übertragung des Virus von Encephalitis epidemica auf Affen.
Experimental transmission of Japanese B encephalitis.
1934
#4688
Experimental lymphocytic choriomeningitis of monkeys and mice produced by a virus encountered in studies of the 1933 St. Louis encephalitis epidemic.
Isolation of the virus of benign lymphocytic choriomeningits.
1934
#2415
An experimental study of mapharsen (meta-amino para-hydroxy phenyl arsine oxide) as an antisyphilitic agent.
Introduction of mapharsen.
1934
#5543
An investigation of the etiology of mumps.
Isolation of mumps virus.
1934
#5396.4
Varieties of typhus virus and the epidemiology of the American form of European typhus fever (Brill’s disease).
Zinsser advanced the theory that Brill’s disease is a recrudescence of epidemic typhus in persons who have contracted the typhus some time previously. The condition has subsequently been renamed “Brill-Zinsser disease”.
1934
#5222
Cultivation of the virus of lymphogranuloma inguinale and its use in therapeutic inoculation. Preliminary report.
1934
#11131
La lèpre.
A handsome folio volume of some seven hundred pages, well printed on fine paper and beautifully illustrated, the book is a tribute to the printer's art as well as to the scientist's efforts. Of special interest is the…
1934
#12387
The isolation and properties of the purified protein derivative of tuberculin
Purification of tuberculin (PPD). By the 1940s Seibert's PPD was the international standard for tuberculin tests.
1934
#12575
Onchocerciasis: With special reference to the Central American form of the disease. Parts I, II, III, and IV
In depth study of onchcerciasis in Guatemala, where "the disease was of real importance to human beings" at the time. Each of the 4 authors contributed a separate part of the report.
1935
#2429.1
Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache. Einführung in die Lehre vom Denkstil und Denkkollektiv.
A very thorough history of the discovery of the Wasserman reaction, and its acceptance by the scientific community. English translation: Genesis and development of a scientific fact, Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1…
1935
#2416
Mapharsen in the treatment of syphilis. A preliminary report.
Clinical use of mapharsen. With R. L. McIntosh, L. M. Wieder, H. R. Foerster, and G. A. Cooper.
1935
#5496
Propagation of the virus of epidemic influenza on the developing egg.
Cultivation of the influenza virus.
1936
#4659
A virus isolated in 1935 epidemic of summer encephalitis in Japan.
T. Taniguchi, M. Hosokawa, and S. Kuga established a virus etiology for Japanese B encephalitis.
1936
#2356
A short history of tuberculosis.
1936
#2357
Tuberculosis.
Clio Medica series.
1936
#5480
Cultivation of the viruses of sandfly fever and dengue fever on the chorioallantoic membrane of the chick-embryo.
Cultivation of the virus of phlebotomus fever. With R. S. Rao and C. S. Swaminath.
1936
#5497
Influenza infection of man from the ferret.
First record of successful passage of influenza from animal to man. The ferret had previously been infected with a virus from a case of influenza.
1936
#13044
Collected writings. With a biographical memoir by Abraham Flexner. 2 vols.
1937
#4689
The treatment of meningococcic meningitis with sulfanilamide.
With S. Gelman and P. H. Long.
1937
#2430
Who gave the world syphilis? The Haitian myth.
1937
#2348
A new tuberculin patch test.
1937
#2358
The control of tuberculosis in England, past and present.
1937
#5544.1
Granulomatous encephalomyelitis due to an encephalitozoon (encephalitozoic encephalomyelitis), a new protozoon disease of man.
Definite recognition of human toxoplasmosis. See also their later paper in the same journal, 1938, 7, 266-83.
1937
#5467
The use of yellow fever virus modified by in vitro cultivation for human immunization.
Immunization without the use of immune serum. In 1951 Theiler was awared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of an effective vaccine against yellow fever." This was the first Nobel Prize award…
1937
#5213.1
La toxi-infection gonococcique expérimentale et son traitement chimiothérapique.
Levaditi and Vaisman showed that sulfanilamide protected mice against gonococcal infection.
1937
#5214.1
The use of sulfanilamide in gonococcic infections. Preliminary report.
1937
#5264.1
