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1,279 entries match Plagues & Epidemics [C01.252]
2014
#7220
Walking corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West.
Leprosy first became known to Europeans during the 12th century when a frightening epidemic ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing charitable institutions called leprosariums to treat the rapidl…
2014
#8189
The emergence of tropical medicine in France.
2014
#10771
Cholera: A worldwide history.
2014
#10778
The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations.
Using the viral genome isolated from the archival serum of the "Kinshasa patient", Lemey, Faria and colleagues deduced that the prototype African viral strain first crossed from monkeys to humans about 1920 in the are…
2014
#11340
Genome sequence of the Tsetse Fly (Glossina morsitans): Vector of African Tyrpanosomiasis.
The Internation Glossina Genome Initiative consisted of 179 collaborators. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
2014
#11341
Presence of extensive Wolbachia symbiont insertions discovered in the genome of its host Glossina morsitans morsitans.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Brelsfoard, Tsiamis, Falchetto....The authors suggested that infection by Wolbachia may give a reproductive advantage to the fly that carries the parasite causing Sleep…
2014
#11397
Actionable diagnosis of neuroleptospirosis by next-generation sequencing.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Wilson, Naccache, Samayoa...Chiu. This research demonstrated the value of "next-generation-sequencing" in the diagnosis of a specific meningoencephalitis, a disease whi…
2014
#12155
Global Health Events web archive.
Global Health Events web archive "Collected by: National Library of Medicine "Archived since: Oct, 2014 "Description: "A selective collection of over 12,000 web resources archived by the National Library of Medicine b…
2014
#12380
Polio wars: Sister Kenny and the golden age of American medicine
"During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's "other war at home": they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly…
2014
#12713
Acute neurologic illness of unknown etiology in children - Colorado, August-September 2014.
The authors reported a cluster of 9 children seen at Colorado Children's Hospital with an acute neurologic illness characterized by extremity weakness, cranial nerve dysfunction, diplopia (double vision), facial droop…
2014
#12799
The malaria project: The U.S. government's secret mission to find a miracle cure.
"....the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II—a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis. "American war planners, foresee…
2014
#13213
Ethnobotany of tuberculosis in Laos.
2015
#7504
Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.
2015
#8042
Vietnamese traditional medicine: A social history.
Reception of foreign medical ideas and techniques through the case study of smallpox.
2015
#8274
Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.
2015
#8800
History, sex and syphilis: Famous syphilitics and their private lives.
2015
#9859
Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.
"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…
2015
#10800
The historical ecology of malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the spirits.
2015
#10905
Human infection with Ehrlichia muris-like pathogen, United States, 2007-2013.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Johnson, Schiffman, Davis, Pritt. The authors, found some commonality in this pathogen, originally designated generally as "Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009" with the mous…
2015
#10917
Novel thogotovirus associated with febrile illness and death, United States, 2014.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Kosoy, Lambert, Hawkinson, Staples. Discovery of a new tick-borne Thogotovirus named by the authors "Bourbon virus" after Bourbon County, Kansas. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for th…
2015
#10919
Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks as reservoir and vector of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in China.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Luo, Zhao, Wen. Discovery that the tick H longicornis can transmit the SFTSV transstadially and transovarially, and could potentially be both the reservoir and vector of the …
2015
#11368
The genealogy of a gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and race.
"Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied “genealogy” of CCR5—intellectual property, natural selection, Big and Sma…
2015
#12714
Acute flaccid myelitis of unknown etiology in California, 2012-2015
The authors presented a retrospective study based on demographics, race, ethnicity, signs, lab results, MRI results of 59 patients identified between June 2012 and July 2015 who presented symptoms that they characteri…
2015
#13024
Vesalius: The China Root epistle. A new translation and critical edition, edited and translated by Daniel H. Garrison, with added illustrations from the 1543 and 1555 De humani corporis fabrica.
2015
#13531
Expelling the plague: The Health Office and the implementation of quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377-1533.
2015
#13891
The end of a global pox: America and the eradication of smallpox in the cold war era.
2016
#9694
The great transition: Climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world.
2016
#9895
Ethnographic plague: Configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier.
"Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to…
2016
#10779
1970s and 'Patient 0' HIV-1 genomes illuminate early HIV/AIDS history in North America.
By genetic analysis of HIV, Worobey, Lemey and colleagues from the social sciences "cleared" Gaëtan Dugas, a Canadian air steward, who previously had been identified by name as Patient Zero--the source of the epidemic…
2016
#10922
Identification of a novel pathogenic Borrelia species causing Lyme borreliosis with unusually high spirochaetemia: A descriptive study.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Pritt, Mead, Johnson. Discovery of Lyme Borreliosis or Borrelia mayonii, a new variant of B. burgdorferi. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
2016
#10941
The 3.8Å resolution cryo-EM structure of Zika Virus.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Sirohi, Rossmann, Kuhn. Using cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), the authors presented the molecular structure of the Zika virus at 3.8Å resolution. Digital facsimile f…
2016
#10942
Wolbachia blocks currently circulating Zika virus isololates in Brazilian Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Dutra, Rocha, Moreira. The authors infected lab populations of mosquitos with Wolbachia pipientis, a common parasitic microbe that infects a high proportion of insects. They …
2016
#10944
Local mosquito-borne transmission of Zika virus - Miami - Dade and Broward counties, Florida, June-August 2016.
First report on Zika virus infections in the U.S., tracing the area of infection to a specific square mile, creating a buffer zone around the area, targeting it for spraying and mosquito collection, intervention, mass…
2016
#11409
Whole-genome characterization and strain comparison of VT2f-producing Escherichia coli causing hemolytic uremic syndrome.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Grande, Michelacci, Bondi.... Demonstration that a phage infecting E. coli conveys the genes into the E. coli that code for the production of the verotoxin that causes …
2016
#11437
Hidden lives, concealed narratives: A history of leprosy in the Philippines. Edited by Maria Serena I. Diokno.
2016
#14068
Influenza encyclopedia: The American influenza epidemic of 1918 - 1919: A digital encyclopedia. Second edition.
ABOUT "Historians, journalists, and the public at large have long been interested in the 1918 “Spanish flu” epidemic, a dramatic chapter in American life that has spawned an impressive body of books, articles, and mul…
2017
#9691
Pale Rider: The Spanish flu of 1918 and how It changed the world.
2017
#9828
Taking turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371.
"In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. Taki…
2017
#9958
HIV / AIDS Collected by: National Library of Medicine, Christine Wenc, curator.
https://archive-it.org/collections/8400 HIV/AIDS "A collection of websites selected and archived by the National Library of Medicine on biomedical, clinical, cultural, and social aspects of HIV/AIDS in the early 21st …
2017
#10906
Proposal to reclassify Ehrlichia muris as Ehrlichia muris subsp. muris subsp. nov. and description of Ehrlichia muris subsp. eauclairensis subsp. nov., a newly recognized tick borne pathogen of humans.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Pritt, Allderdice, Sloan. By extremely complex genotyping methods and fine electron microscopic analysis of the organism, the authors showed that the infectious agent i…
2017
#10945
Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of Zika virus into the United States.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Grubaugh, Ladner, Kraemer. The authors found that the Zika virus was introduced into Florida at least 4 times, but perhaps as many as 40 times, before it was detected, …
2017
#11861
History of the discovery of the mode of transmission of yellow fever virus.
Digital text is available from Wiley Online Library at this link.
2017
#13910
Syphilis in Victorian literature and culture: Medicine, knowledge and the spectacle of invisibility.
2017
#14201
Zika virus protection by a single low-dose nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccination.
Prior to their development of the mRNA vaccine for Covid-19, Karikó and Weissman (Nobel Prize 2023) and colleagues used a novel mRNA vaccine, with base modifications created in their laboratory, to generate a protecti…
2018
#10594
Tuberculosis and War: Lessons learned from World War II. Edited by John F. Murray and Robert Loddenkemper.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the status of TB before, during and after WWII in the 25 belligerent countries that were chiefly involved. It also summarizes the history of TB up to the present day. "A …
2018
#10946
The emergence of Zika virus and its new clinical syndromes.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Pierson, Diamond. Analyzes, and documents with 147 references, the variety of new clinical syndromes, including fetal / in utero effects, caused by the Zika virus. Also…
2018
#11474
Assembling the tropics: Science and medicine in Portugal's empire, 1450-1700.
2018
#12636
Encephalitis lethargica: The mind and brain virus.
Both an historical and a scientific study.
2019
#10916
A new segmented virus associated with human febrile illness in China.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Wang, Ze-Dong; Wang, Bo; Wei, Feng. Discovery of a new tick-borne virus that the authors name the "Alongshan virus" (ALSV) in the family Flaviridae. Digital facsimile from ne…
2019
#12715
Association of enterovirus D68 with Acute flaccid myelitis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2009-2018.
The authors correlated increases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) with EV-D68 outbreaks. They noted that EV-D68 infected mice exhibited paralyzed limbs, and they reported that EV-D68 had undergone genome evolutiion tha…