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1,279 entries match Plagues & Epidemics [C01.252]

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1938

#4659.1

Human encephalitis caused by the virus of the Eastern variety of equine encephalomyelitis.

FOTHERGILL, Leroy Dryden (1901 – 1967) & et al.

Isolation of the virus of Eastern equine encephalitis from man. With J. H. Dingle, S. Farber, and M. L. Connerley.

1938

#4660

Recovery of the virus of equine encephalomyelitis from the brain of a child.

HOWITT, Beatrice Fay (1891 – )

Western equine encephalitis virus recovered from man.

1938

#1926

The action of substances allied to 4:4'-diaminodiphenylsulphone in streptococcal and other infections in mice.

BUTTLE, Gladwin Albert Hurst (1899 – 1983) & et al.

G. A. H. Buttle, T. Dewing, G. E. Foster, W. H. Gray, S. Smith, and D. Stephenson discovered the potency of dapsone (DDS).

1938

#1951

Chemotherapy of pneumococcal and other infections with 2-(p-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine.

WHITBY, Sir Lionel Ernest Howard (1895 – 1956)
WHITBY, Sir Lionel Ernest Howard (1895 – 1956)

Experimental proof of the efficacy of sulfapyridine (M & B 693) in pneumococcal pneumonia.

1938

#1952

Treatment of pneumonia with 2-(p-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine.

GAISFORD, Wilfrid Fletcher (1902 – 1988) EVANS, Gladys Mary (1897 – 1973)

Clinical proof of the value of sulphapyridine. M & B 693 (sulphapyridine) treatment of pneumonia. This followed the experimental work of L. E. H. Whitby (see No. 1951).

1938

#2446

Through the leper-squint. A study of leprosy from pre-Christian times to the present day.

WEYMOUTH, Anthony [Pseudonym]

1938

#3149

Tropical macrocytic anaemia: Its relation to pernicious anaemia.

WILLS, Lucy (1888 – 1964)
WILLS, Lucy (1888 – 1964) EVANS, Barbara Dorothy Fordyce (1909 – 1995)

1938

#3211

An acute infection of the respiratory tract with atypical pneumonia: A disease entity probably caused by a filterable virus.

REIMANN, Hobart Ansteth (1897 – 1986)
REIMANN, Hobart Ansteth (1897 – 1986)

Atypical pneumonia.

1938

#5506.2

Die Röteln sind eine Viruskrankheit.

HIRO, Y TASAKA, S

Successful transfer of rubella to children by means of filtered nasal washings.

1938

#5449

Culture “in vitro” du virus de la rougeole.

PLOTZ, Harry (1890 – 1947)

Successful cultivation of measles virus.

1938

#5467.1

Yellow fever virus in jungle mosquitoes.

SHANNON, Raymond Corbett (1894 – 1945) & et al.

Haemagogus sp. shown to be vectors of yellow fever. With L. Whitman and M. Frania.

1938

#5258

Exo-erythrocytic schizogony in Plasmodium gallinaceum Brumpt, 1935.

JAMES, Sydney Price (1870 – 1946)
JAMES, Sydney Price (1870 – 1946) TAIT, P

The term “exo-erythrocytic stage” introduced to describe the unpigmented schizonts found in tissue cells. The parasite Plasmodium gallincaceum described by Alexandre Joseph Emile Brumpt causes malaria in poultry.

1938

#12593

A medical survey of the republic of Guatemala, by George Cheever Shattuck. With the collaboration of Joseph C. Bequaert, Margaret M. Hilferty, Jack H. Sandground [and] Samuel Drury Clark.

SHATTUCK, George Cheever (1879 – 1972)
BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982)
BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982) SANDGROUND, Jack Henry (1899 – 1987) HILFERTY, Margaret M. CLARK, Samuel Drury

Organized and directed by the Department of Tropical Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1939

#4660.1

Vesennij (vesenne-letnij) endemiceskij klescevoj encefalit. [Vernal (verno-aestival) endemic tick-borne encephalitis.]

ZILBER, Lev Aleksandrovich (Alexandrovich) (1894 – 1966)
ZILBER, Lev Aleksandrovich (Alexandrovich) (1894 – 1966)

Isolation of the virus of spring–summer (Russian Far East) encephalitis.

1939

#2268

A history of tropical medicine. 2 vols.

SCOTT, Sir Henry Harold (1874 – 1956)

An exhaustive history of the subject to the time of writing.

1939

#3212

Pneumonia. With special reference to pneumococcus lobar pneumonia.

HEFFRON, Roderick (1901 – )

1939

#5087.2

A study in active immunization against pertussis.

KENDRICK, Pearl Louella (1890 – 1980) ELDERING, Grace (1900 – 1988)

Pertussis vaccine.

1939

#5172.1

The use of anthrax vaccines prepared from avirulent (uncapsulatec) variants of Bacillus anthracis.

STERNE, Max (1905 – 1997)

Nonencapsulated spore vaccine.

1940

#2431

Syphilis in earlier days.

WHITWELL, James Richard (1863 – 1945)

1940

#2349

The effect of promin (sodium salt of P. P’-diamino-diphenyl-sulfone-N, N’-dextrose sulfonate) on experimental tuberculosis: a preliminary report.

FELDMAN, William Hugh (1892 – 1974) & et al.

Experimental evidence of the value of promin (sodium glucosulphone) in tuberculosis. With H. C. Hinshaw and H.E. Moses. See also Amer. Rev. Tuberc., 1942, 45, 303-33.

1940

#5498

A new type of virus from epidemic influenza.

FRANCIS, Thomas Jr. (1900 – 1969)
FRANCIS, Thomas Jr. (1900 – 1969)

Recovery of influenza B virus.

1940

#5499

A virus from cases of influenza-like upper-respiratory infection.

MAGILL, Thomas Pleines (1903 – 1999)

Recovery of influenza B virus.

1940

#5398.1

Epidemic and endemic typhus. Protective value for guinea pigs of vaccines prepared from infected tissues of the developing chick embryo.

COX, Herald Rea (1907 – 1986) BELL, E. John

Typhus vaccine.

1940

#5398.2

Rickettsia disease of Malaya. Identity of tsutsugamushi and rural typhus.

LEWTHWAITE, Raymond (1894 – 1972) SAVOOR, S. R. (1900 – 1980)

Lewthwaite and Savoor showed scrub typhus to be identical to tsutsugamushi fever.

1940

#5224

Complement-fixation test in lymphogranuloma venereum.

MCKEE, Clara M.

Diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum by complement-fixation test. With G. W. Rake and M. F. Shaffer.

1940

#5259

Klinische und parasitologische Befunde und chemotherapeutische Ergebnisse bei der Hühnermalaria.

MUDROW, Lilly (1908 – 1957)

Discovery of the developmental forms of P. gallinaceum in the incubation period.

1940

#5259.1

The form of Plasmodium, gallinaceum present in the incubation period of the infection.

SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987)
SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987) & et al.

Independently of Mudrow, H. E. Shortt, K. P. Menon, and P. V. Seetharama Iyer found pre-erythrocytic forms of P. gallinaceum in the tissues.

1940

#10951

A neurotropic virus isolated from the blood of a native in Uganda.

SMITHBURN, K. C. HUGHES, T. P. BURKE, A. W. & et al.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Smithburn, Hughes, Burke. In 1937 the authors isolated a virus from the blood of an adult female with fever from the Omogo West Nile district of Uganda, and named it West Nil…

1941

#2417

A new serologically active phospholipid from beef heart.

PANGBORN, Mary Candace (1907 – 2003)
PANGBORN, Mary Candace (1907 – 2003)

Cardiolipin antigen for serological diagnosis of syphilis. For isolation and purification see J. biol. Chem., 1942, 143, 247-56.

1941

#5507

Congenital cataract following German measles in the mother.

GREGG, Sir Norman McAlister (1892 – 1966)
GREGG, Sir Norman McAlister (1892 – 1966)

Gregg drew attention to congenital defects in infants following rubella in the mother during the early part of pregnancy.

1941

#5301.2

The transmission of Leishmania tropica by the bite of Phlebotomus papatasii.

ADLER, Saul (1895 – 1956)
ADLER, Saul (1895 – 1956) BER, Mordechai ( – 1952)

Proof of the transmission of L. tropica by P. papatasii.

1941

#5224.1

The vesicular test. Diagnostic method of infection by poradenic (lymphogranuloma inguinale)virus.

OTTOLINA, Carlos (1903 – 1960)

Vesicular test for diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum.

1942

#5508

Transmission of rubella to Macacus mulatta monkeys.

HABEL, Karl (1908 – 1991)

Successful transmission of rubella.

1942

#5302

Transmission of Indian kala-azar to man by the bites of Phlebotomus argentipes, Ann. and Brun.

SWAMINATH, C. S.

Successful transmission of kala-azar to man by the bite of Phlebotomus argentipes reported, showing it to be the vector of Leishmania. With H. E. Shortt and L. A. P. Anderson.

1942

#12108

Influenza: A survey of the last fifty years in the light of modern work on the virus of epidemic influenza.

BURNET, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899 – 1985) CLARKE, Ellen

1943

#2441

The promin treatment of leprosy. A progress report.

FAGET, Guy Henry (1891 – 1947) & et al.

Promin (sodium glucosulphone) introduced in the treatment of leprosy. With R. C. Pogge, F. A. Johansen, J. F. Dinan, B. M. Prejean, and C. G. Eccles.

1943

#2418

Penicillin treatment of early syphilis. A preliminary report.

MAHONEY, John Friend (1889 – 1957)
MAHONEY, John Friend (1889 – 1957) ARNOLD, Richard C. (1906 – 1992) HARRIS, Ad

Mahoney and colleagues introduced penicillin in treatment of syphilis. This was the report of the first four cases of patients with early stages of the disease. Digital facsimile of the version published in the the Am…

1943

#5509

Congenital defects in infants following infectious diseases during pregnancy.

SWAN, Charles Spencer (1912 – 1963)

Figures demonstrating that rubella in the first or second month of pregnancy always results in an abnormal infant. With A. L. Tostevin, B. Moore, H. Mayo, and G. H. B. Black.

1943

#5214.1

Use of penicillin in sulfonamide resistant gonorrheal infections.

HERRELL, Wallace Edgar (1909 – 1992) & et al.

With E. N. Cook and L. Thompson.

1943

#10952

Transmission of West Nile virus by infected Aedes albopictus.

SMADEL, Joseph Edwin (1907 – 1963) PHILIP, C. B.

The authors demonstrated that the Aedes albopictus mosquito is the vector of West Nile virus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1944

#4689.1

Penicillin in the treatment of meningitis.

ROSENBERG, David Harry (1903 – ) ARLING, Philip Arthur (1908 – 1955)

1944

#2432

Notable contributors to the knowledge of syphilis.

GOODMAN, Herman (1894 – 1971)

1944

#2442

Preliminary report on diasone in the treatment of leprosy.

MUIR, Ernest (1880 – 1974)

Muir found diasone (a sulphone) valuable in the treatment of leprosy.

1944 –1948

#2447

Indice bibliográfico de lepra, 1560-1943. 3 vols.

KEFFER, Luiza

Supplements 1-5, 1952-62.

1944

#2349.1

The pathogenesis of tuberculosis.

RICH, Arnold Rice (1893 – 1968)

Classic work on the pathogenesis of tuberculosis and its immunology and hypersensitivity.

1944

#3213.1

Studies on the etiology of primary atypical pneumonia. A filterable agent transmissible to cotton rats, hamsters, and chick embryos.

EATON, Monroe Davis (1904 – ) & et al.

The Eaton agent, isolated from primary atypical pneumonia. With G. Meiklejohn and W. van Herick.

1944

#5398.3

The therapeutic effect of para-aminobenzic acid in louse-borne typhus fever.

YEOMANS, Andrew (1907 – ) & et al.

With J. C. Snyder, E. S. Murray, C. J. D. Zarafonetis, and R. S. Ecke.

1944

#5449.1

Chemical, clinical, and immunological studies on the products of human plasma fractionation. XII. The use of concentrated normal human serum gamma globulin (human immune serum globulin) in the prevention and attenuation of measles.

ORDMAN, Charles William (1914 – ) & et al.

Gamma globulin used for passive immunization against measles. With C. G. Jennings and C. A. Janeway.

1944

#5259.2

The development of Plasmodium gallinaceum from sporozoite to erythrocytic trophozoite.

HUFF, Clay G. (1900 – ) COULSTON, Frederick (1914 – 2003)

First detailed account of the full cycle of development of the avian malaria parasite P. gallinaceum.

1945

#2350

Streptomycin in treatment of clinical tuberculosis: a preliminary report.

FELDMAN, William Hugh (1892 – 1974) HINSHAW, Horton Corwin (1902 – 2001)