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1,279 entries match Plagues & Epidemics [C01.252]
1984
#6997
Detection, isolation, and continuous production of cytopathic retroviruses (HTLV-III) from patients with AIDS and pre-AIDS.
Gallo, Popovic, and colleagues demonstrated that a retrovirus they had isolated, called HTLV-III, was the cause of AIDS. M. G. Sarngadharan, and E. Read. Bibcode:1984Sci...224..497P. doi:10.1126/science.6200935. PMID …
1984
#11059
A new type of retrovirus isolated from patients presenting with lymphadenopathy and acquired immune deficiency syndrome: Structural and antigenic relatedness with equine infectious anemia virus.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Montagnier, Dauguet,... Barré-Sinoussi. In this paper Montagnier and colleagues showed that, contrary to the views of Gallo and his group, LAV (Lymphadenopathy Associat…
1984
#12600
Antibodies to the core protein of lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) in patients with AIDS.
The authors mentioned in a footnote added at the end of the paper that "A specific ELISA test with total LAV proteins detects LAV-speciic antibodies in 95% of LAS patients and 70-95% of AIDS depending on the risk grou…
1985
#8820
Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.
1985
#10789
Serological evidence for virus related to Simian T-Lymphotropic retrovirus III in residents of West Africa.
First report of the discovery of what became known as HIV-2 by the U.S. research group led by Kanki. This group published before the French group, but the French group had reported their data one day prior to the U.S.…
1985
#11206
A bibliography of Edward Jenner, 1749-1823
Revised second edition of Lefanu's A bio-bibliography of Edward Jenner (1951). The annotations in this bibliography form a kind of biographical narrative of Jenner's life and achievements.
1985
#11377
The association between idiopathic hemolytic uremic syndrome and infection by Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Karmali, Petric, Lim. The authors discovered that a hemolytic uremic syndrome, associated with E. coli 0157-H7 (first described in No. 11376), and which could not be cu…
1985
#13367
Histoire des médecins et pharmaciens de marine et des colonies.
1985
#13727
The management of smallpox eradication in India.
1986
#8743
Le mal de Naples. Histoire de la syphilis.
Translated into English by Judith Braddock and Brian Pike as The history of syphilis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).
1986
#9331
Evidence for human infection with an HTLV III/LAV-like virus in Central Africa, 1959.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Nahmias, Weiss, Yao...Kanki, Essex. The authors presented evidence for the first or earliest infection with HIV in a human. This paper reported on a patient from Kinshasa, Za…
1986
#10788
Isolation of a new human retrovirus from West African patients with AIDS.
HIV-2 was discovered essentially simultaneously by French and U.S. teams. This was the first publication by the French team. Order of authorship of the original publication was Clavel, Guettard, Brun-Vezinet. See thei…
1986
#11042
The T4 glycoprotein is a cell-surface receptor for the AIDS virus.
Order of authorship in the original paper: McDougal, Maddon, Dalgleish. The authors discovered that the T4 lymphocyte cell has an outer glycoprotein on its surface that specifically acts as the receptor for HIV. Witho…
1986
#11106
Administration of 3'-Azido-3'-Deoxythmymidine, an inhibitor of HTLV-III/LAV replication, to patients with AIDS or AIDS-related complex.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Yarchoan, Weinhold, Lyerly. The first antiviral AIDS drug, later named "Retrovir"/ Zidovudine/AZT. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
1986
#11851
Plague and the poor in Renaissance Florence.
"This book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Profes…
1987
#6998
And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.
Shilts, an investigative journalist, chronicled the discovery and spread of HIV / AIDS with special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what was then perce…
1987
#10557
The AIDS History Project.
https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…
1987
#10899
Human infection with Ehrlichia canis, a leukocytic rickettsia.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Maeda, Markowitz, Hawley. First description of Ehrlichiosis in humans, description of the organism, and successful drug treatment with doxycycline. The pathogen was lat…
1987
#12487
No magic bullet: A social history of venereal disease in the United States since 1880.
1987
#13798
CDC and the smallpox crusade.
Recounts the work toward the eradication of smallpox by the CDC, as distinct from the World Health Organization (WHO). Digital facsimile from stacks.cdc.gov at this link.
1988
#7549
Smallpox and its eradication.
The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.
1988
#11255
Legionnaires disease: Historical perspective.
Digital facsimile from cmr.asm.org at this link.
1988
#11542
La médecine coloniale: Mythe et réalités.
1988
#12314
Histoire de lépreux au Moyen Âge, une société d'exclus.
1988
#13682
Aids: The burdens of history. Edited by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox.
1990
#6994
History of AIDS. Emergence and origin of a modern pandemic. Translated by Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin.
1990
#12649
One doctor's adventures among the famous and infamous from the jungles of Panama to a Park Avenue practice. With Tracy Dahlby.
1990
#13391
The condom industry in the United States.
1991
#9262
Bilharzia: A history of imperial tropical medicine.
1991
#10984
Plague: A story of smallpox in Montreal.
1991
#13683
Aids: The making of a chronic disease. Edited by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox.
1992
#8804
Miasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.
1992
#9264
The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.
1993
#8811
Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.
An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.
1994
#8453
The black death.
A collection of documents written by those who lived and died in the mid-fourteenth century, translated and accompanied with commentaries.
1994
#10880
Identification of herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma.
Dated December 16, 1994. Order of authorship in the original paper was Chang, Cesarman, Pessin,...Moore. The authors reported a new human herpesvirus associated with Kaposi's sarcoma, and gave it the descriptive name …
1994
#10901
Human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis in the Upper Midwest United States. A new species emerging?
Order of authorship in the original paper: Bakken, Dumler, Chen. First description of the Ehrlichia ewingii species of Ehrlichiosis (HGE) from a patient in Duluth, Minnesota, though the infectious agent was not yet na…
1995
#8036
The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.
1995
#8103
Disease and class: Tuberculosis and the shaping of modern North American society.
1995
#8703
Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.
1995
#10881
Detection of herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in Kaposi's sarcoma in patients with and those without HIV infection.
Dated May 4, 1995. Order of authorship in the original publication was Moore, Chang. That the virus causing Kaposi's sarcoma appeared in healthy as well as HIV patients suggested that this virus causes cancer only in …
1995
#10889
Infection with a Babesia-like organism in Northern California.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Persing, Herwaldt, Glaser. First report of a Basisa duncani infection in humans (4 patients). The authors designated the infection as Babesia (WA1) strain transmitted by I…
1995
#10902
Ixodes dammini as a potential vector of human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Pancholi,Kolbert, Mitchell. The authors provided convincing evidence that the tick Ixodes dammini is a common vector for the transmission of HGE (Ehrlichia ewingii). (Than…
1995
#11343
Whole-genome random sequencing and assembly of Haemophilus influenzae Rd.
First sequence of the complete genome of a free-living non-viral organism—Haemophilus influenzae—the bacterium that causes lower respiratory tract infections and meningitis in infants and young children. This genome c…
1995
#11795
Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence.
1995
#11997
Purification and characterization of a low-molecular-mass T-cell antigen secreted by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Andersen and colleagues found that a protein fraction obtained from M. tuberculosis was immunologically active in mice, suggesting that it was one of the proteins recognized by T cells. In this paper the authors ident…
1996
#7922
Médecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique 1900-1960. Lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose.
1996
#8626
The Wellcome Trust illustrated history of tropical diseases. Edited by F. E. G. Cox.
1996
#9235
The structure of plagues and pestilences in early modern Europe. Central Europe, 1560-1640.
"The most in-depth study ever undertaken of how plague and other infectious diseases affected populations in Central Europe between 1560 and 1640. Based on quantitative data gleaned from over 800 parish registers, the…
1996
#10882
Human herpesvirus 8 Is present in the lymphoid system of healthy persons and can reactivate in the course of AIDS.
Dated June 22, 1995. Order of authorship in the original paper was Bigoni, Dolcetti, de Lellis....By this time Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) was also known as human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8). The authors wr…