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1,279 entries match Plagues & Epidemics [C01.252]
1996
#11365
Identification of a major co-receptor for primary isolates of HIV-1.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Deng, Liu, Ellmeier.... This paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Nature by: Tatjana Dragic, Virginia Litwin, Graham P. Allaway et al. "HIV-1 entry into …
1996
#11852
Bubonic plague in nineteenth-century China.
The first work in English on the history of disease in China traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteent…
1996
#11995
Molecular analysis of genetic differences between Mycobacterium bovis BCG and virulent M. bovis.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mahairas, Sabo, Hickey.... From the Abstract: "The live attenuated bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine for the prevention of disease associated with Mycobacterium tu…
1996
#14050
The great pox. The French disease in Renaissance Europe.
1997
#8237
Ibn Al-Jazzār on sexual diseases and their treatment: A critical edition of Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-hādir. Translated and edited by Gerrit Bos.
1997
#8862
A ciéncia dos trópicos: A arte médica no Brasil do sécolo XVIII.
1997
#9385
A melancholy scene of devastation: The public response to the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. Edited by J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith.
1997
#10030
Sex, disease, and society: A comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh.
1997
#11408
The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli K-12.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Blattner, Plunkett, Bloch.... Complete genome sequence of E. coli, the first complete genome sequence of an organism. Following p. 1462 there are two large, unpaginated…
1998
#7960
Viruses, plagues & history: Past, present, and future.
Revised and updated edition, 2010.
1998
#9650
Contagion and confinement: Controlling tuberculosis along the skid road.
1998
#10900
Ehrlichia chaffeensis in Missouri ticks.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Roland, Everett, Cyr. Using PCR, the authors demonstrated that the tick Amblyoma americanum (the Lone Star Tick) was the insect vector of Ehrlichia chaffeensis. Digital facsi…
1998
#11342
Complete genome sequence of treponema pallidum, the syphilis spirochete.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Fraser, Norris, Weinstock....Smith, Venter. Sequence of the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
1998
#11998
Deciphering the biology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the complete genome sequence.
Abstract: "Countless millions of people have died from tuberculosis, a chronic infectious disease caused by the tubercle bacillus. The complete genome sequence of the best-characterized strain of Mycobacterium tubercu…
1999
#7838
Race, place, and medicine: The idea of the tropics in nineteenth-century Brazilian medicine.
1999
#10031
Histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Philip W, Setel, Milton J. Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.
1999
#10579
An illustrated history of malaria.
Concentrates on 19th century developments.
1999
#10903
Ehrlichia ewingii, a newly recognized agent of human Ehrlichiosis.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Buller, Arens, Hmiel. The authors confirmed that the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (HGE), is Ehrlichia ewingii, a pathogen carried by dogs and known in that …
1999
#10953
Outbreak of West Nile-like viral encephalitis -- New York, 1999.
On October 1, 1999 the CDC reported a cluster of human encephalitis cases; prior to these cases many crows had been dying. The "sentinel event" in this outbreak was the report to the New York Health Dept. by Dr. D. As…
1999
#10954
Isolation of West Nile virus from mosquitoes, crows, and a Cooper's hawk in Connecticut.
First definite identification of the West Nile virus in the Western hemisphere. This paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by Lanciott, R.S., Roehrig, J.T., Deubet, V. et al, "Origin of the West …
1999
#11040
Origin of HIV-1 in the chimpanzee Pan troglodytes troglodytes.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Gao, Bailes, Robertson, Hahn. Demonstration, led by Hahn, that HIV-1 originated specifically in the chimpanzee--a mutant of the chimp SIV (SIV-cpz) which acquired mutations s…
2000
#8504
Indigenous theories of contagious disease.
2000
#10033
A Plague of paradoxes: Aids, culture, and demography in Northern Tanzania.
2000
#12328
Tuskegee's truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Edited by Susan M. Reverby.
2001
#10091
Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.
2001
#10799
Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.
2001
#11853
Biology of plagues: Evidence from historical populations.
2001
#13710
Rotting face: Smallpox and the American Indian.
2002
#8041
Vital accounts: Quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France.
Focuses several chapters on the debates over innoculation for smallpox, and statistical measurement of results, statistical studies of the effect of climate on disease, etc.
2002
#11336
Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Gardner, Hall, Fung.... Genome of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite carried by the mosquito that causes malaria in humans. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its i…
2002
#11337
The genome sequence of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Holt, Subramanian, Halpern.... Sequence of the genome of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito that carries the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. (Thanks to Juan Weiss…
2002
#13567
Invisible invaders: Smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880.
"An epidemic of smallpox among Aboriginal people around the infant colony of Sydney in 1789 puzzled the British, for there had been no cases on the ships of the First Fleet. Where, then, did the epidemic come from? "A…
2002
#13793
Pox Americana: The great smallpox epidemic of 1775-82.
2003
#9452
The history of tropical neurology: Nutritional disorders.
2003
#13145
The barbary plague: The black death in Victorian San Francisco.
2003
#14155
Mountains beyond mountains: The quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a man who would cure the world
Traces the life of physician and anthropologist Paul Farmer with particular focus on his work fighting tuberculosis, especially in Haiti, Peru, and Russia.
2004
#9025
Stories in the time of cholera: Racial profiling during a medical nightmare.
'In 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-…
2004
#9652
Anthrax: A history.
2004
#9974
The great influenza: The epic story of the greatest plague in history.
2004
#10508
Mapping the Victorian social body.
"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…
2004
#11244
The life and death of smallpox.
2004
#13690
Venereal disease, hospitals and the urban poor: London's "foul wards," 1600-1800.
2004
#14086
L’origine de la syphilis en Europe: Avant ou après 1493? / The origin of syphilis in Europe: Before or after 1493? Proceedings of an international colloquium, Toulon, France, 25–28 November 1993. Edited by Olivier Dutour, György Pálfi, Jacques Berato, and Jean-Pierre Brun.
The occasion of this meeting was the discovery in 1989 near Hyères (Var, France) of a human skeleton of the third or fourth century CE presenting lesions similar to those of syphilis. The volume contains fifty papers …
2005
#9386
Yellow Jack: How yellow fever ravaged American and Walter Reed discovered its deadly secrets.
2005
#10080
Must we all die? Alaska's enduring struggle with tuberculosis.
2005
#10415
Fever of war: The influenza epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I.
2005
#10515
Plague and fire: Battling black death and the 1900 burning of Honolulu's Chinatown.
2005
#11193
Macrofilaricidal activity after doxycycline treatment of Wuchereria bancrofti: A double blind randomized placebo-controlled trial.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Taylor, Makunde, McGarry.... The authors treated infection by the parasitic worm Wuchereria bancrofti, cause of elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis), by killing the Wolbachia…
2005
#11335
Characterization of the reconstructed 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic virus.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Tumpey, Basler, Aguilar... Taubenberger. Reconstruction of the genome of the 1918 Spanish Influenza virus from frozen tissue samples from a mass grave of victims of the…
2005
#11339
The genome of the African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei.
Genome of the parasite that causes Sleeping Sickness. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)