Toxoplasmosis · Garrison-Morton-Norman

Year	Title & Tags	Author(s)
1900	Au sujet de l’hématozoaire endoglobulaire de Padda oryzivora. Microbiology & Virology	LAVERAN, Charles Louis Alphonse (1845 – 1922)
1908	Sur une infection à corps de Leishman (ou organismes voisins) du gondi. Microbiology & Virology	NICOLLE, Charles Jules Henri (1866 – 1936) MANCEAUX, Louis Herbert (1865 – 1943)
1908	Un nuovo protozoa parassito de’ conigli incontrato nelle lesioni anatomiche d’una malattia che ricorda in molti punti il kala azar dell’uomo. Americas (non-U.S.) Microbiology & Virology	SPLENDORE, Alfonso (1871 – 1953)
1914	Note on certain protozoa-like bodies in a case of protracted fever with splenomegaly. Microbiology & Virology	CASTELLANI, Aldo (1877 – 1971)
1937	Granulomatous encephalomyelitis due to an encephalitozoon (encephalitozoic encephalomyelitis), a new protozoon disease of man. Microbiology & Virology	WOLF, Abner (1902 – 1983) COWEN, David (1907 – 2001)
1950	Experimental congenital toxoplasmosis. 1. The vagina as a portral of entry of toxoplasma in the mouse. Experimental congenital toxomplasmosis II. Transmission of toxomplasmosis to the placenta and fetus following vaginal infection the the pregnant mouse. Experimental congenital toxoplasmosis III. Toxomplasmosis in the offspring of mice infected by the vaginal route. Incidence and manifestations of the disease. Microbiology & Virology	WOLF, Abner (1902 – 1983) COWEN, David (1907 – 2001)

1900 LAVERAN, Charles Louis Alphonse (1845 – 1922)

Au sujet de l’hématozoaire endoglobulaire de Padda oryzivora.

Toxoplasma described.

GMN 5530.2 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6662

1908 NICOLLE, Charles Jules Henri (1866 – 1936); MANCEAUX, Louis Herbert (1865 – 1943)

Sur une infection à corps de Leishman (ou organismes voisins) du gondi.

Toxoplasma described. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).

GMN 5534 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6684

1908 SPLENDORE, Alfonso (1871 – 1953)

Un nuovo protozoa parassito de’ conigli incontrato nelle lesioni anatomiche d’una malattia che ricorda in molti punti il kala azar dell’uomo.

Splendore discovered Toxoplasma in a rabbit; it was named T. cuniculi.

GMN 5534.1 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6689

1914 CASTELLANI, Aldo (1877 – 1971)

Note on certain protozoa-like bodies in a case of protracted fever with splenomegaly.

Castellani was first to suspect that toxoplasmosis could affect humans.

GMN 5535.1 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6695

1937 WOLF, Abner (1902 – 1983); COWEN, David (1907 – 2001)

Granulomatous encephalomyelitis due to an encephalitozoon (encephalitozoic encephalomyelitis), a new protozoon disease of man.

Definite recognition of human toxoplasmosis. See also their later paper in the same journal, 1938, 7, 266-83.

GMN 5544.1 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6754

1950 WOLF, Abner (1902 – 1983); COWEN, David (1907 – 2001)

Experimental congenital toxoplasmosis. 1. The vagina as a portral of entry of toxoplasma in the mouse. Experimental congenital toxomplasmosis II. Transmission of toxomplasmosis to the placenta and fetus following vaginal infection the the pregnant mouse. Experimental congenital toxoplasmosis III. Toxomplasmosis in the offspring of mice infected by the vaginal route. Incidence and manifestations of the disease.

"In 1950 and 1951, Drs. Cowen and Wolf published a series of 5 papers, super-titled, “Experimental Congenital Toxoplasmosis,” in which they demonstrated the intrauterine infection of placenta, fetus, and offspring wit…

GMN 13473 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15747