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1,279 entries match Plagues & Epidemics [C01.252]
2005
#13622
Suppression of RNA recognition by toll-like receptors: The impact of nucleoside modification and the evolutionary origin of RNA.
Karikó and Weissman discovered the nucleoside modifications that suppress the immungenicity of RNA, leading to their patents for the application of non-immunogenic, nucleoside-modified RNA (modRNA). This technology wa…
2006
#8251
Colonial pathologies: American tropical medicine, race, and hygiene in the Philippines.
2006
#8905
Leprosy and empire: A medical and cultural history.
"An interdisciplinary study of why a disease that is so difficult to catch has caused such alarm. It examines how the fear of leprosy was part of nineteenth-century imperial expansion, as colonial officials and missio…
2006
#9763
Plague, SARS, and the story of medicine in Hong Kong.
2006
#11041
Chimpanzee reservoirs of pandemic and nonpandemic HIV-1.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Keele, Van Heuverswyn, Li, Hahn. Definitive proof that SIVcpz circulated and existed in wild chimps in a given area of Africa, and that a mutation of this specific SIV in Afr…
2006
#12597
CCR5 deficiency increases risk of symptomatic West Nile infection.
The authors showed that the absence of the CCR5 receptor, which provides immunoresistance to HIV increases susceptability to West Nile virus. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Glass, McDermott, Lim et …
2006
#13890
Expunging variola: The control and eradication of smallpox in India 1947-1977.
2007
#9687
Plague and the end of antiquity: The pandemic of 541-750. Edited by Lester K. Little.
2007
#9688
Justinian's flea: The first great plague and the end of the Roman Empire.
2007
#9704
Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820.
2007
#11338
Genome sequence of Aedes aegypti, a major arbovirus vector.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Nene, Wortman, Lawson.... Sequence of the genome of the mosquito that transmits Zika, Yellow fever, Dengue, Chikungunya, etc. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference a…
2007
#11391
Plague ports: The global urban impact of bubonic plague, 1894-1901.
"A century ago, the third bubonic plague swept the globe, taking more than 15 million lives. The book tells the story of ten cities on five continents that were ravaged by the epidemic in it's initial years: Hong Kong…
2007
#13290
The making of a tropical disease: A short history of malaria.
2008
#9878
The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.
2008
#10014
L'Histoire des vaccinations.
Translated and significantly revised and enlarged as Vaccination: A history from Lady Montagu to genetic engineering (Montrouge: John Libbey Eurotext: 2011).
2008
#10509
Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.
2008
#12214
Sex, sin, and science: A history of syphilis in America.
2009
#7548
Smallpox--the death of a disease: The inside story of eradicating a worldwide killer.
2009
#9391
War and Disease: Biomedical research on malaria in the twentieth century.
2009
#10573
The plague files: Crisis management in sixteenth-century Seville.
2009
#10775
Long-term control of HIV by CCR5 Delta32/Delta32 stem-cell transplantation.
Gero Hütter and co-authors reported the first long-term remission or "cure" of HIV/AIDS in a human. The patient, Timothy Ray Brown also known as "The Berlin Patient" also suffered from myeloid leukemia and underwent s…
2009
#12384
Laboratory disease: Robert Koch's medical bacteriology.
2009
#12641
Encephalitis lethargica and influenza. 1: The role of the influenza virus in the influenza pandemic of 1918/1919. 2: The influenza pandemic of 1918/19 and encephalitis lethargica: Epidemiology and symptoms. 3: The influenza pandemic of 1918/19 and encephalitis lethargica: Neuropathology and discussion.
Parts 2 and 3 are freely available from PubMedCentral at this link, and at this link.
2009
#13274
Plague writing in early modern England.
"During the seventeenth century, England was beset by three epidemics of the bubonic plague, each outbreak claiming between a quarter and a third of the population of London and other urban centers. Surveying a wide r…
2010
#8704
Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: Dalla peste nera ai giorni nostri.
2010
#8822
Medicine in an age of commerce and empire: Britain and its tropical colonies 1660-1830.
2010
#9389
Mosquito empires: Ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914.
"explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth cen…
2010
#10220
Angel of death: The story of smallpox.
2010
#11076
Odorant reception in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Carey, Wang, ... Carlson. The authors showed that besides CO2, the odorant receptors in the malaria mosquistoes Anopheles gambiae are sensitive to other "mostly sweat" …
2010
#11393
The last plague in the Baltic Region 1709-1713.
This work "offers a thorough description and analysis of the terrible plague epidemic that ravaged the Baltic region in the years between 1709 and 1713? at the same time when the region was razed by the Great Northern…
2010
#13789
The smallpox eradication saga: An insider's view.
2011
#7940
The ailing city: Health, tuberculosis, and culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950.
2011
#10360
Miraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.
2011
#10625
House on fire: The fight to eradicate smallpox.
Foege, as director of the Centers for Disease Control, is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s".[4]
2011
#10904
Emergence of a new pathogenic Ehrlichia species, Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Pritt, Sloan, Johnson. Discovery of a new species of Ehrlichia, initially denoted as "Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009," that was not related to E. chaffeensiis or E. ewin…
2011
#10918
Fever with thrombocytopenia associated with a novel Bunyavirus in China.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Yu, Liang, Zhang. Discovery of a new virus, suspected by the authors to be tick-borne. The authors named the virus, "severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus" (SFTSV…
2011
#12080
The origin and antiquity of syphilis revisited: An Appraisal of Old World pre‐Columbian evidence for treponemal infection.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Harper, Zuckerman, Harper, Kingston, Armelagos. Abstract: "For nearly 500 years, scholars have argued about the origin and antiquity of syphilis. Did Columbus bring the…
2011
#12719
Ultrastructural, immunofluorescence, and RNA evidence support the hypothesis of a "new" virus associated with Kawasaki disease.
The authors concluded that a very common infectious agent, one that usually results in an asymptomatic infection, causes Kawasaki disease in a subset of genetically predisposed children. They argued that the available…
2012
#7891
Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.
2012
#8492
Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman empire.
An examination of Ottoman plague treatises and writers from the Black Death until 1923.
2012
#9538
AIDS at 30: A history.
2012
#10907
Encylopedia of the black death.
2012
#10915
A new phlebovirus associated with severe febrile illness in Missouri.
Order of authorship in the original paper: McMullan, Folk, Kelly. Discovery of a new Phlebovirus, which the authors name the "Heartland virus" and with high probability that Amblyoma is the tick vector. Digital facsim…
2012
#12154
The scars of Venus: A history of venereology.
2013
#8100
In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.
2013
#9374
Ship of death: A voyage that changed the Atlantic world.
A multi-disciplinary account from the perspectives of the history of the slave trade, the anti-slavery movement and medical history, of the voyage of the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792-…
2013
#10219
Paralysed with fear: The story of polio.
2013
#10414
"Good tuberculosis men": The Army Medical Department's stuggle with tuberculosis.
Digital facsimile from cs.amedd.army.mil at this link.
2013
#10772
Smallpox: A history.
2013
#12141