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

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1954

#11887

Protection afforded by sickle-cell trait against subtertian malarial infection.

ALLISON, Anthony Clifford (1925 – 2014)

Allison was the first to connect a hereditary disease (sickle cell disease) to an infectious disease (malaria). He proved that heterozygous and homozygous individuals to the sickle cell trait or disease respectively s…

1954

#12968

The anaesthetist's viewpoint on the treatment of respiratory complications in poliomyelitis during the epidemic in Copenhagen, 1952.

IBSEN, Bjørn Aage (1915 – 2007)

Ibsen developed the first Intensive Care Unit (ICU) during the polio epidemic in Copenhagen in 1952, formally setting up the unit in 1953 in a converted student nurse classroom in the Municipal Hospital in Copenhagen.…

1955

#4672.3

Immunization of chimpanzees and human beings with avirulent strains of poliomyelitis virus.

SABIN, Albert Bruce (1906 – 1993)
SABIN, Albert Bruce (1906 – 1993)

Sabin reported the successful immunization of chimpanzees by oral and I.M. route using the Brunhilde, Mahoney and Leon strains of polio virus. On p. 1055 he reported the experimental results on humans given a "single …

1955

#2360

Historical chronology of tuberculosis. 2nd ed.

BURKE, Richard Michael (1903 – )

1955

#5500.1

Vergleichende sero-immunologische Untersuchungen über die Viren der Influenza und klassischen Geflügelpest.

SCHÄFER, Werner (1912 – 2000)

Schäfer showed the close serological relationship between human influenza viruses and their avian counterparts and suggested that members of this group might change their host specificity.

1955

#5546.3

Propagation and primary isolation of mumps virus in tissue culture.

HENLE, Gertrude Szpingier (1912 – 2006) DEINHARDT, Friedrich W. (1926 – 1992)

1955

#5264.3

Man’s mastery of malaria.

RUSSELL, Paul Farr (1894 – 1983)

Heath Clark Lectures, 1953.

1956

#2442.2

Clinical trials of diphenyl thiourea compound SU 1906 (Ciba 1509E) in the treatment of leprosy. Progress during the first year.

DAVEY, Thomas Frank (1908 – 1983) CURRIE, Gordon

Introduction of diphenylthiourea (thiambutosine) therapy.

1956

#2353.1

Freeze-dried B.C.G. vaccination of newborn infants with a British vaccine.

GRIFFITHS, Margaret Isabel (1902 – 1996) GAISFORD, Wilfrid Fletcher (1902 – 1988)

Freeze-dried B.C.G. vaccine.

1957

#2419.1

Reiter protein complement fixation test for syphilis.

CANNEFAX, George Radford (1911 – ) GARSON, Warfield (1918 – 2007)

See also H. Reiter, Brit. J. vener. Dis., 1960, 36, 18-20.

1957

#2419.2

A fluorescent test for treponemal antibodies.

DEACON, Wilbur Eugene (1907 – ) & et al.

Fluorescent treponemal antibody test. With V. H. Falcone and A. Harris.

1957

#5436.1

The adoption of inoculation for smallpox in England and France.

MILLER, Genevieve (1914 – 2013)

The appendices contain the early histories of inoculation, a list of German doctoral dissertations on inoculation 1720-52, and a bibliography.

1957

#10886

Piroplasmosis in man: Report on a case.

ŠKRABALO, Zdenko (1929 – 2014) DEANOVIC, Z.

Order of authorship in the original paper was Škrabalo, Deanovic. First report of a case of babesiosis in a human, in this case an immunocompromised patient in Zagreb, (now Croatia). Piroplasmosis is another term for …

1958

#4661.2

St. Louis encephalitis in 1933; observations on epidemiological features.

LUMSDEN, Leslie Leon (1875 – 1946)

In a report to the Surgeon General in 1933, Lumsden concluded that the Culex mosquito was the vector of the St. Louis encephalitis virus. His report was not published until 1958.

1958 –1959

#2660.12

A sarcoma involving the jaws in African children.

BURKITT, Denis Parsons (1911 – 1993)
BURKITT, Denis Parsons (1911 – 1993)

Burkitt’s lymphoma (African lymphoma), first described in detail by Sir Albert Cook, a medical missionary, but not published by him.

1958

#5289.1

Factors that may influence the infection rate of Glossina palpalis with Trypanomosoma gambiense. 1. The age of the fly at the time of the infected feed.

WIJERS, D. J. B.

Wijers showed that the tsetse fly is infected during its first or second blood meal, but not afterwards, information of considerable importance in determining the criteria for the transmission of trypanosomiasis.

1958

#5449.3

Propagation of measles virus in cultures of chick embryo cells.

ENDERS, John Franklin (1897 – 1985) KATZ, Samuel Lawrence (1927 – ) & et al.

With M. V. Milovanovič.

1959

#2442.3

Diethyl dithiolisophthalate in the treatment of leprosy (ETIP or “Etisul”); a progress report.

DAVEY, Thomas Frank (1908 – 1983) HOGERZEIL, L. M.

Ditophal (Etisul) in leprosy.

1959

#2353.2

Experiments on the antituberculous activity of alpha-ethyl-thioisonicotinamide.

RIST, Noël (1906 – 1990) & et al.

Ethionamide. With F. Grumbach and D. Liberman.

1959

#5111.4

Cholera.

POLLITZER, Robert (1885 – 1968)

Includes a section on the history of cholera. WHO Monograph Series,No. 43.

1960

#2442.4

Acid-fast bacilli in nasal excretions in leprosy, and results of inoculation of mice.

SHEPARD, Charles Carter (1914 – 1985)
SHEPARD, Charles Carter (1914 – 1985)

Transmission of leprosy to animals. See also J. exp. Med., 1960, 112, 445.

1960

#5352.4

Bibliography of bilharziasis, 1949-1958.

WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Continues and supplements Nos. 5352 and 5352.1

1960

#5449.4

Studies on an attenuated measles-virus vaccine. I. Development and preparation of the vaccine: technics for assay of effects of vaccination.

ENDERS, John Franklin (1897 – 1985) KATZ, Samuel Lawrence (1927 – ) & et al.

Live virus vaccine. With M. V. Milovanovič, and A. Holloway.

1960

#9390

Aëdes Aegypti (L.) The yellow fever mosquito: Its life history, bionomics and structure.

CHRISTOPHERS, Samuel Rickard (1873 – 1978)

1961

#2353.3

A new synthetic compound with antituberculous activity in mice; ethambutol (dextro-2, 2’-(ethylenediimino)-di-l-butanol).

THOMAS, J. P. & et al.

Ethambutol for the treatment of tuberculosis. With C. O. Baughn, R. G. Wilkinson and R. G. Shepherd.

1962

#2432.1

A history of syphilis.

DENNIE, Charles Clayton (1883 – 1971)
DENNIE, Charles Clayton (1883 – 1971)

1962

#3215.5

Growth on artificial medium of an agent associated with atypical pneumonia and its identification as a PPLO.

CHANOCK, Robert Merritt (1904 – 2010)
HAYFLICK, Leonard (1928 – 2024)
HAYFLICK, Leonard (1928 – 2024)

Using a novel agar and fluid medium formulation he had devised, Hayflick isolated a unique mycoplasma Mycoplasma pneumoniae, a mycoplasma shown to be the cause of some cases of primary atypical pneumonia, or "walking …

1962

#5509.1

Propagation in tissue culture of cytopathic agents from patients with rubella-like illness.

WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008)
WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008) NEVA, Franklin Allen (1922 – 2011)

Isolation of rubella virus. It was simultaneously isolated by P. D. Parkman, et al. (No. 5509.2.)

1962

#5509.2

Recovery of rubella virus from army recruits.

PARKMAN, Paul Douglas (1932 – )
PARKMAN, Paul Douglas (1932 – ) BUESCHER, Col. Edward L. (1925 – 1989) ARTENSTEIN, Malcolm S. (1930 – 1976)

Isolation of the rubella virus.

1962

#7927

The cholera years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.

ROSENBERG, Charles Ernest (1936 – )

Edition with new Afterword published in 1987.

1962

#10920

Powassan virus: Field investigations in Northern Ontario, 1959-1961.

MCLEAN, Donald M. MCQUEEN, Joan PETITIE, H. Elizabeth & et al.

The authors isolated a virus from the brain of a child who died of encephalitis in Powassan, Ontario, and named it the Powassan virus. They posited a tick vector and possible rodent natural hosts. (Thanks to Juan Weis…

1963

#5308.2

On the origin of the human treponematoses (pinta, yaws, endemic syphilis and venereal syphilis).

HACKETT, Cecil John (1905 – 1995)

“Perhaps the most scholarly investigation of the origin of syphilis” (Wesley Spink).

1964

#2419.3

An improved FTA test for syphilis; the absorption procedure (FTA-ABS).

HUNTER, Elizabeth F. & et al.

Absorbed fluorescent treponemal antibody (FTA-ABS) test. With W. E. Deacon and P. E. Meyer. The text is available from the NLM PubMedCentral at this link.

1964

#2447.1

The fight against leprosy.

FEENY, Patrick

1964

#5351.6

Chemotherapy of experimental Schistosoma mansoni infections with a nitro-thiazole derivative, CIBA 32, 644-Ba.

LAMBERT, C. R.

Introduction of niridazole (Ambilhar).

1964

#11672

Parasites of the human heart.

KEAN, Benjamin Harrison (1912 – 1993) BRESLAU, Roger C.

1965 –1971

#9423

Obras completa. Compiladas por César Rodriguez Expósito. 5 vols.

FINLAY, Carlos Juan (1833 – 1915)
FINLAY, Carlos Juan (1833 – 1915) EXPÓSITO, César Rodriguez (1904 – 1972)

1966

#5509.3

Attenuated rubella virus. II. Production of an experimental live-virus vaccine and clinical trial.

PARKMAN, Paul Douglas (1932 – )
PARKMAN, Paul Douglas (1932 – ) MEYER, Harry Martin Jr. (1928 – 2001) & et al.

With T. C. Panos.

1966

#12125

Plague and plague control in the Soviet Union: History and bibliography through 1964.

POLLITZER, Robert (1885 – 1968)

1967

#2419.4

Haemagglutination test utilizing pathogenic Treponema pallidum for the sero-diagnosis of syphilis.

RATHLEV, Tara (1927 – 2009)

Treponemal hemagglutination (TPHA) test.

1967

#5509.4

Rubella-virus hemagglutination-inhibition test.

STEWART, George Louis (1936 – ) & et al.

With five co-authors.

1967

#5352.5

Schistosomiasis. A bibliography of the world’s literature from 1852 to 1962. 2 vols.

WARREN, Kenneth S. (1929 – 1996) NEWILL, Vaun Archie (1923 – 2012)

1967

#10679

The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.

LANGLANDS, Bryan Wooleston (1928 – 1989)

1967

#12581

Plague prevention and politics in Manchuria, 1910-1931.

NATHAN, Carl F.

"The Chinese winter of 1910-1911 was one of death and discontent: an epidemic of pneumonic plague—the greatest since the Black Death of the fourteenth century—scourged China's three Eastern Provinces (Manchuria), and …

1967

#12716

In Japanese: [Acute febrile mucocutaneous syndrome with lymphoid involvement with specific desquamation of the fingers and toes in children.]

KAWASAKI, Tomisaku (1925 – )
KAWASAKI, Tomisaku (1925 – )

Kawasaki first reported this disease in 1961 in a four-year-old child with a rash and fever at the Red Cross Hospital in Tokyo; by the time he wrote this paper he had seen 50 cases. The mysterious novel illness was ev…

1968

#12038

Correspondence of Pasteur & Thuillier concerning anthrax and swine fever vaccinations. Translated and edited by Robert M. Frank and Denise Wrotnowska. Preface by Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot.

PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895)
PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895)
THUILLIER, Louis (1856 – 1883)
THUILLIER, Louis (1856 – 1883) FRANK, Robert M. WROTNOWSKA, Denise

Edition and translation of about 60 letters mostly between Pasteur and his protegé Louis Thuillier in the Reynolds Historical Library at the University of Alabama. During the period involved in this correspondence "Th…

1968

#14303

Oral maintenance therapy for cholera in adults.

CASH, Richard Alan (1941 – 2024)
CASH, Richard Alan (1941 – 2024) NALIN, David R. (1941 – ) ISLAM, Rafiqul PHILLIPS, Robert Allan (1906 – 1976) & et al.

Abstract: "An oral solution containing glucose, sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and potassium chloride or citrate was used as maintenance therapy for acute cholera. In comparison with control patients who receive…

1969

#5440.2

Prevention of varicella by zoster immune globulin.

BRUNELL, Philip Alfred (1931 – ) & et al.

With A. Ross, L. H. Miller, and B. Kuo.

1969

#8936

História da febre-amarela no Brasil.

FRANCO, Odair

Digital facsimile from bvsms.saude.gov.br at this link.

1970

#2442.5

Experimental and clinical studies on rifampicin in treatment of leprosy.

REES, Richard John William (1917 – 1998) & et al.

With J. M. H. Pearson and M. F. R. Waters.