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147 entries match Infectious Disease (General) [C01]
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
#12360
Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.
1998
#11079
Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections: Clinical description of the first 50 cases.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Swedo, Leonard, Garvey.... Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS), "an hypothesis that there exists a subset …
1998
#13807
The eradication of infectious diseases. Report of the Dahlem Workshop....Berlin, March 16-22, 1997. Edited by W. R. Dowdle and D. R. Hopkins.
This Dahlem Workshop occurred on the 20th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox.
1999
#11925
Flu: The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it.
1999
#12340
Rheumatic fever in America and Britain: A biological, epidemiological, and medical history.
2003
#7941
Disease in the history of modern Latin America: From malaria to aids. Edited by Diego Armus.
2003
#9885
The rise of causal concepts of disease: Case histories.
"The philosopher K Codell Carter's authoritative study of the transition from an assumption that diseases have multiple causes to the modern belief in universal, necessary causes is such a book. For decades, historian…
2003
#10859
Outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome - Worldwide, 2003.
First description of the scope of the outbreak dated March 21, 2003, preliminary case definition, and interim infection control guidance for the United States. Available from the CDC at this link. One week later the C…
2003
#10860
Coronavirus as a possible cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Dated April 19, 2003, this paper identified and reproduced microscopic images of the novel viral agent. It was the first official journal publication on SARS. Order of authorship in the published paper was Peiris, Lai…
2003
#10861
A novel coronavirus associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Ksiazek and over 40 co-authors around the world published the lead article in the May 15, 2003 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that was nearly entirely devoted to SARS. Order of authorship in the publishe…
2003
#10862
Characterization of a novel coronavirus associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome.
Dated May 30, 2003. Rota and team at the CDC determined the sequence of the complete genome of SARS-CoV, and characterized the viral genome. Order of authorship in the published paper was Rota, Oberste, Monroe....DeRi…
2003
#10863
The genome sequence of the SARS-associated coronavirus.
Dated May 30, 2003 and published immediately after No. 10862 in the same issue of Science, this reported the work of Marco Marra and his team in Canada. Order of authorship in the published paper was Marra, Jones, Ast…
2003
#12009
Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is a functional receptor for the SARS coronavirus.
The authors showed that the angiontensin-converting enzyme 2, abbreviated ACE2, is the obligative cell receptor for the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
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
#14297
The detection of Monkeypox in humans in the Western Hemisphere.
The first report on detection of Mpox (Monkeypox) in humans in the Western Hemisphere, elaborating and expanding on cases reported in 2003 in Wisconsin and Milwaukee. These patients had been bitten by prairie dogs. At…
2005
#9386
Yellow Jack: How yellow fever ravaged American and Walter Reed discovered its deadly secrets.
2005
#10864
Bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses.
Dated October 28, 2005, roughly two years after the outbreak of SARS, the natural reservoirs of this class of coronaviruses was discovered. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)
2005
#12113
Emergence of unique primate T-lymphotropic viruses among central African bushmeat hunters.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Wolfe, Heniene, Carr ...Birx.... "As of 2016, 301 terrestrial mammals were threatened with extinction due to hunting for bushmeat including primates, even-toed ungulate…
2006
#7924
Les conquêtes de la médecine moderne en Afrique. Edited by Jean-Paul Bado.
2006
#9763
Plague, SARS, and the story of medicine in Hong Kong.
2008
#9683
Antimicrobial drugs: Chronicle of a twentieth century medical triumph.
Concerns the history of all anti-infectives, including antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antiprotozoal and anthelminthic agents.
2009
#13711
The tainted gift: The disease method of frontier expansion.
2011
#12440
Using a pan-viral microarray assay (Virochip) to screen clinical samples for viral pathogens.
Direct link to the Journal of Visualized Experiments, JOVE.com: https://www.jove.com/video/2536/using-pan-viral-microarray-assay-virochip-to-screen-clinical-samples Using a Pan-Viral Microarray Assay (Virochip) to Scr…
2012
#10418
Contagion: How commerce has spread disease.
2012
#10876
Severe respiratory illness associated with a novel coronavirus - Saudi Arabia and Qatar, 2012.
Reports on the first two patients affected by a "new" coronavirus. The first patient, hospitalized in June 2012, died, and the other was in both pulmonary and renal failure. In this paper the CDC referenced a website …
2012
#10877
Brief Report: Isolation of a novel coronavirus from a man with pneumonia in Saudi Arabia.
This paper, dated November 8, 2012, characterized the virus up to and including its genome sequence, including radiology and imaging findings, lab findings, diagnosis and management. The authors tentatively named the …
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
#10878
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in bats, Saudi Arabia.
Dated November 2013. The authors collected bat feces from sites in Bisha, Saudi Arabia found less than 1-12 kilometers from the place of employment or home of an index case-patient there, and performed total nucleic a…
2014
#7624
Madness and memory: The discovery of prions- a new biological principle of disease.
Prusiner discovered prions, the agent causing scrapie in sheep and goats, mad cow disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
2014
#10771
Cholera: A worldwide history.
2014
#10879
Brief report: Evidence for camel-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus.
Dated June 26, 2014. Using viral genomics and PCR, the Saudi authors demonstrated that full genome sequences of a man, and the camel he had contact with, were identical. Available from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks t…
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…
2015
#9202
Confronting contagion: Our evolving understanding of disease.
2015
#11442
Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.
2015
#11923
The influenza pandemic in Japan, 1918-1920: The first world war between humankind and a virus. Translation by Lynne E. Riggs and Takechi Manbu.
2015
#13186
Insects, hygiene and history.
2016
#10096
Farewell to the god of plague: Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China.
2016
#13089
The germ of an idea: Contagionism, religion, and society in Britain, 1660-1730.
"Contagionism is an old idea, but gained new life in Restoration Britain. The Germ of an Idea considers British contagionism in its religious, social, political and professional context from the Great Plague of London…
2017
#9691
Pale Rider: The Spanish flu of 1918 and how It changed the world.
2017
#13088
Contagionism catches on. Medical ideology in Britain, 1730-1800.
"This book shows how contagionism evolved in eighteenth century Britain and describes the consequences of this evolution. By the late eighteenth century, the British medical profession was divided between traditionali…
2018
#9959
CONTAGION: Historical views of diseases and epidemics.
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/contagion/ This was the original version of this digital library. It includes commentary. It may be available through the Internet Archive, Archive-It facility or through the Wayback Machine…
2018
#10935
Reading contagion: The hazards of reading in the age of print.
2020
#12013
