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

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1945

#3214

Transmission of primary atypical pneumonia to human volunteers.

COMMISSION ON ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISEASES

1945

#5399

Cultivation of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi in lungs of rodents. Preparation of a scrub-typhus vaccine.

FULTON, Forrest (1913 – 1971) JOYNER, L

Scrub-typhus vaccine.

1945

#5475.1

Production of immunity to dengue with virus modified by propagation in mice.

SABIN, Albert Bruce (1906 – 1993)
SABIN, Albert Bruce (1906 – 1993) SCHLESINGER, Robert Walter (1913 – 2003)

Successful propagation of dengue in mice and production of a vaccine.

1945

#5260

Studies on synthetic antimalarial drugs.

CURD, Francis Henry Swinton (1909 – 1948) & et al.

F. H. S. Curd, D. G. Davey, and F. L. Rose synthesized proguanil (“paludrine”) and first tested it in avian malaria.

1945

#5261

Studies on synthetic antimalarial drugs. XIII. Results of a preliminary investigation of the therapeutic action of 4888 (paludrine) on acute attacks of benign tertian malaria.

ADAMS, Alfred Robert Davies (1901 – 1992)

First use of proguanil in human malaria. With B. G. Maegraith, J. D. King, R. H. Townsend, T. H. Davey, and R. E. Havard.

1945

#13801

The effect of smallpox on the destiny of the Amerindian.

STEARN, Allen Edwin (1894 – ) STEARN, Esther Wagner

1946

#2351

Ueber eine neue, gegen Tuberkelbazillen in vitro wirksame Verbindungsklasse.

DOMAGK, Gerhard Johannes Paul (1895 – 1964)
DOMAGK, Gerhard Johannes Paul (1895 – 1964) & et al.

Introduction of thiosemicarbazone in treatment of tuberculosis. With R. Behnisch, F. Mietzsch, and H. Schmidt.

1946

#2359

Chemotherapy of tuberculosis. Researches during the past 100 years.

HART, Philip Montagu D'Arcy (1900 – 2006)

1946

#2418.1

A microflocculation test for syphilis using cardiolipin antigen: preliminary report.

HARRIS, A

V. D. Research Laboratory test (Harris test). With A. A. Rosenberg and L. M. Riedel.

1946

#5180

Streptomycin treatment of tularemia.

FOSHAY, Lee (1896 – 1960) PASTERNACK, A. Bernard (1916 – )

1946

#5544.2

Immunity in mumps. VI. Experiments on the vaccination of human beings with formolized mumps virus.

ENDERS, John Franklin (1897 – 1985) STOKES, Joseph Jr. (1896 – 1972) & et al.

With E. P. Maris, and L. W. Kane.

1946

#5261.1

Chloroquine for treatment of acute attacks of vivax malaria.

MOST, Harry (1907 – 1994)
LONDON, Irving M. (1918 – 2018)
LONDON, Irving M. (1918 – 2018) LAVIETES, Paul Harold (1907 – 1990)

Harry Most led the development of chloroquine for use in treating American troops suffering from malaria. At the beginning of the American involvement in the war there were more American casualties from malaria than f…

1947

#5351.4

Sur la chimiothérapie de l’onchocercose. (Note préliminaire).

VAN HOOF, L.

First effective chemotherapy (suramin) for onchocerciasis. With C. Heurard, E. Peel, and M. Wanson.

1947

#1940

Chloromycetin, an antibiotic with chemotherapeutic activity in experimental rickettsial and viral infections.

SMADEL, Joseph Edwin (1907 – 1963) JACKSON, Elizabeth B.

Introduction of chloramphenicol, used in treatment of typhus.

1948

#2442.1

Leprosy treated with sulphetrone in 1943.

HARKNESS, Arthur Herbert (1889 – 1970) BROWNLEE, G

Clinical use of solapsone (sulphetrone).

1948

#2578.6

In vitro method for testing the toxin-producing capacity of diphtheria bacteria.

OUCHTERLONY, Örjan Thomas Gunnersson (1914 – 2004)

Agar gel immunodiffusion.

1948

#2993

Cellophane treatment of syphilitic aneurysms with report of results in six cases.

POPPE, John Karl (1911 – 2012)

1948

#5261.2

Pentaquine (Sn-13,276), a therapeutic agent effective in reducing the relapse rate in vivax malaria.

ALVING, Alf Sven (1902 – 1965)

Clinical trials of pentaquine. With B. Craige, R. Jones, C. M. Whorton, T. N. Pullman, and L. Eichelberger.

1948

#5262

The pre-erythrocytic stage of mammalian malaria.

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

Demonstration of the pre-erythrocytic stage of P. cynomolgi in the monkey. With P. C. C. Garnham and B. Malamos. Preliminary communication in Nature (Lond.), 1948, 161, 126.

1948

#5262.1

The pre-erythrocytic stage of human malaria Plasmodium vivax.

SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987)
SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987)

With P. C. C. Garnham, G. Covell, and P. G. Shute.

1949

#4671.1

Cultivation of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus in cultures of various human embryonic tissues.

ENDERS, John Franklin (1897 – 1985)
WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008)
WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008)
ROBBINS, Frederick Chapman (1916 – 2003)
ROBBINS, Frederick Chapman (1916 – 2003)

Enders, Weller, and Robbins grew the poliomyelitis virus in cultures of different tissues. Their method proved of great value in virus research, and removed the final obstacles to vaccine production. In 1974 Enders, W…

1949

#2419

Immobilization of Treponema pallidum in vitro by antibody produced in syphilitic infection.

NELSON, Robert Armstrong (1921 – ) MAYER, Manfred Martin (1916 – 1984)

Nelson’s treponemal immobilization test.

1949

#5500

Studies on survival of influenza-virus between epidemics and antigenic variants of the virus.

TAYLOR, Richard Moreland (1887 – 1981)

Recovery of influenza C virus.

1949

#5352.1

Bibliographie des schistosome et des schistosomiases (bilharzioses) humaines et animales de 1931 á 1948.

BOUILLON, Albert

Continues and supplements No. 5352.

1949

#5402.1

Serological evidence of Q fever in Great Britain.

STOKER, Sir Michael George Parke (1918 – 2013)
STOKER, Sir Michael George Parke (1918 – 2013)

Relationship of primary atypical pneumonia and Q fever.

1949

#5225

The laboratory diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum.

BEDSON, Sir Samuel Phillips (1886 – 1969) & et al.

Skin-test antigen. With C. F. Barwell, E. J. King, and L. W. J. Bishop.

1949

#5262.2

The pre-erythrocytic stage of Plasmodium falciparum. A preliminary note.

SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987)
SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987)

With N. H. Fairley, G. Covell, P. G. Shute, and P. C. C. Garnham. See also Trans. roy. Soc. trop. Med. Hyg., 1951, 44, 405-19.

1949

#9384

Bring out your dead: The great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793.

POWELL, John Harvey (1914 – 1971)

Reprinted with a new introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).

1950

#2352

A new and practical B.C.G. skin test (the B.C.G. scarification test) for the detection of the total tuberculous allergy.

FRAPPIER, Armand (1904 – 1991)
FRAPPIER, Armand (1904 – 1991) GUY, Roland (1913 – )

1950

#5546.1

Colorado tick fever. Isolation of the virus from Dermacentor andersoni in nature and a laboratory study of the transmission of the virus in the tick.

FLORIO, Lloyd Joseph (1910 – 1975) & et al.

Isolation of the virus of Colorado tick fever. With M. S. Miller and E. R. Mugrage.

1950

#5352.2

Bibliography of onchocerciasis.

PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Publication No. 242.

1950

#5262.3

Primaquine, S.N. 13,272, a new curative agent in vivax malaria: a preliminary report.

EDGCOMB, John Harold (1924 – 2007) & et al.

Introduction of primaquine.

1950

#5264.2

The conquest of malaria.

JARAMILLO-ARANGO, Jaime (1897 – 1962)

1950

#13804

The early smallpox epidemics in Europe and the plague of Athens after Thucydides.

ALIVIZATOS, G. P.

1951

#2352.1

The multiple-puncture tuberculin test.

HEAF, Frederick Roland George (1894 – 1973)

The Heaf multiple-puncture tuberculin test.

1951

#5262.4

2:4-Diaminopyrimidines – a new series of antimalarials.

FALCO, E. A.

Preparation and laboratory tests of pyrimethamine. With L. G. Goodwin, G. H. Hutchings, I. M. Rollo, and P. B. Russell.

1951

#5262.5

A 2:4-diamino pyrimidine in the treatment of proguanil-resistant laboratory malarial strains.

ROLLO, Ian McIntosh (1926 – 2015)

Pyrimethamine (daraprim).

1952

#2353

Chemotherapy of human tuberculosis with hydrazine derivatives of isonicotinic acid. (Preliminary report of representative cases.)

ROBITZEK, Edward Heinrich (1912 – 1984) & et al.

Introduction of isoniazid. With I. J. Selikoff and G. G. Omstein. See also Amer. Rev. Tuberc., 1952, 65, 257-442.

1952

#7864

Zika virus (I). Isolations and serological specificity.

DICK, George Williamson Auchinvole (1914 – 1997) KITCHEN, S. F. HADDOW, Alexander John (1912 – 1978)

First description of Zika virus, an arbovirus native to Africa. The authors named the virus after the Zika forest in Uganda, where they were searching for Yellow Fever. Instead they isolated a new virus in samples tak…

1952

#10939

Zika virus. (II). Pathogenicity and physical properties.

DICK, George Williamson Auchinvole (1914 – 1997)

Dick's second paper on the Zika virus, immediately following his first paper in the same volume of the same journal (see no. 7864). First statement that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is the vector of transmission of the …

1952

#10940

Neutralizing antibodies against certain recently isolated viruses in the sera of human beings residing in East Africa.

SMITHBURN, K. C.

First report of human illness caused by Zika virus, detected in Uganda and Tanzania. 38 patients had neutralizing antibodies to Zika virus in their blood serum, proving that they had been infected by the virus. (Thank…

1952

#11103

Studies on the cultivation of poliomyelitis viruses in tissue culture.

ENDERS, John Franklin (1897 – 1985)
WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008)
WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008)
ROBBINS, Frederick Chapman (1916 – 2003)
ROBBINS, Frederick Chapman (1916 – 2003) & et al.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Weller, Enders, Robbins. In this paper the authors describe their improved method for culturing poliomyelitis viruses in "normal kidney tissue." Followed by Robbins, We…

1953

#4672.2

Studies in human subjects on active immunization against poliomyelitis. 1. A preliminary report of experiments in progress.

SALK, Jonas Edward (1914 – 1995)
SALK, Jonas Edward (1914 – 1995) & et al.

Killed-virus vaccine. With four co-authors.

1953

#5143

Conquest of plague. A study of the evolution of epidemiology.

HIRST, Leonard Fabian (1882 – 1964)

1953

#5440.1

Serial propagation in vitro of agents producing inclusion bodies derived from varicella and herpes zoster.

WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008)
WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008)

Isolation of the varicella-herpes virus.

1953

#10504

Pest in Venedig 1575-1577. Ein Beitrag zur Frage der Infektkette bei den Pestepidemien West-Europas.

RODENWALDT, Ernst Robert Karl (1878 – 1965)
RODENWALDT, Ernst Robert Karl (1878 – 1965)

Rodenwaldt studied of the course of plague in Venice from 1575-1577 and the measures taken to combat the epidemic, considering symptoms, transmitter, environment, climatic influences, and the success and failure of th…

1954

#4158.1

Kurze Geschichte der Dermatologie und Venereologie und ihre kulturgeschichtliche Spiegelung.

SCHÖNFELD, Walther Heinrich Paul (1888 – 1977)

1954

#5131

Plague.

POLLITZER, Robert (1885 – 1968)

Includes a section on the history of plague. WHO Monograph Series, No. 22.

1954 –1960

#5352.3

Annotated bibliography of filariasis and elephantiasis. 5 parts.

IYENGAR, Mandayam Osuri Tirunarayana (1895 – 1963)

South Pacific Commission Technical Papers, Nos. 65, 88, 109 (and Supplement), 124, and 160.

1954

#5449.2

Propagation in tissue cultures of cytopathogenic agents from patients with measles.

ENDERS, John Franklin (1897 – 1985) PEEBLES, Thomas C. (1921 – 2010)

Isolation of measles virus.