1987 MAEDA, Koichi; MARKOWITZ, Norman; HAWLEY, Robert C.; ET AL
Human infection with Ehrlichia canis, a leukocytic rickettsia.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Maeda, Markowitz, Hawley. First description of Ehrlichiosis in humans, description of the organism, and successful drug treatment with doxycycline. The pathogen was lat…
GMN 10899 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13095
1992 CIPOLLA, Carlo M. (1922 – 2000)
Miasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.
GMN 8804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10982
1992 LYONS, Maryinez
The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.
GMN 9264 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11446
1993 ARNOLD, David (1946 – )
Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.
An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.
GMN 8811 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10989
1994 HORROX, Rosemary (1951 – )
The black death.
A collection of documents written by those who lived and died in the mid-fourteenth century, translated and accompanied with commentaries.
GMN 8453 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10630
1994 BAKKEN, Johan S.; DUMLER, John Stephen; CHEN, Sheng-Min; ET AL
Human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis in the Upper Midwest United States. A new species emerging?
Order of authorship in the original paper: Bakken, Dumler, Chen. First description of the Ehrlichia ewingii species of Ehrlichiosis (HGE) from a patient in Duluth, Minnesota, though the infectious agent was not yet na…
GMN 10901 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13097
1995 COSMACINI, Giorgio (1931 – )
Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.
GMN 8703 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10881
1995 PERSING, David H.; HERWALDT, Barbara L.; GLASER, Carol; ET AL
Infection with a Babesia-like organism in Northern California.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Persing, Herwaldt, Glaser. First report of a Basisa duncani infection in humans (4 patients). The authors designated the infection as Babesia (WA1) strain transmitted by I…
GMN 10889 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13085
1995 PANCHOLI, Preeti; KOLBERT, Chris P.; MITCHELL, Paul D.; ET AL
Ixodes dammini as a potential vector of human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Pancholi,Kolbert, Mitchell. The authors provided convincing evidence that the tick Ixodes dammini is a common vector for the transmission of HGE (Ehrlichia ewingii). (Than…
GMN 10902 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13098
1995 KOHN, George Childs
Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence.
GMN 11795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13997
1996 BADO, Jean-Paul
Médecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique 1900-1960. Lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose.
GMN 7922 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10095
1996 ECKERT, Edward A. (1920 – )
The structure of plagues and pestilences in early modern Europe. Central Europe, 1560-1640.
"The most in-depth study ever undertaken of how plague and other infectious diseases affected populations in Central Europe between 1560 and 1640. Based on quantitative data gleaned from over 800 parish registers, the…
GMN 9235 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11417
1996 BENEDICT, Carol Ann
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…
GMN 11852 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14056
1997 ESTES, J. Worth (1934 – 2000); SMITH, Billy G.
A melancholy scene of devastation: The public response to the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. Edited by J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith.
GMN 9385 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11568
1998 OLDSTONE, Michael B. A.
Viruses, plagues & history: Past, present, and future.
Revised and updated edition, 2010.
GMN 7960 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10135
1998 ROLAND, William E.; EVERETT, E. Dale; CYR, Tracy L.; ET AL
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…
GMN 10900 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13096
1999 BRUYN, George Willem (1928 – 2002); POSER, Charles Marcel (1923 – 2010)
An illustrated history of malaria.
Concentrates on 19th century developments.
GMN 10579 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12772
1999 BULLER, Richard; ARENS, Max; HMIEL, S. Paul; ET AL
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 …
GMN 10903 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13099
1999 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
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…
GMN 10953 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13149
1999 ANDERSON, John F.; ANDREADIS, Theodore G.; VOSSBRINCK, Charles R.
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 …
GMN 10954 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13150
2001 ECHENBERG, Myron (1940 – )
Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.
GMN 10091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12280
2001 HUMPHREYS, Margaret Ellen
Malaria: Poverty, race, and public health in the United States.
GMN 10799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12995
2001 SCOTT, Susan (1953 – ); DUNCAN, Christopher J.
Biology of plagues: Evidence from historical populations.
GMN 11853 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14057
2002 GARDNER, Malcolm J.; HALL, Neil; FUNG, Eula; ET AL
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…
GMN 11336 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13534
2002 HOLT, Robert A.; SUBRAMANIAN, G. Mani; HALPERN, Aaron L.; ET AL
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…
GMN 11337 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13535
2003 CHASE, Marilyn
The barbary plague: The black death in Victorian San Francisco.
GMN 13145 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15404
2005 PIERCE, John R.; WRITER, James V.
Yellow Jack: How yellow fever ravaged American and Walter Reed discovered its deadly secrets.
GMN 9386 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11569
2005 MOHR, James C.
Plague and fire: Battling black death and the 1900 burning of Honolulu's Chinatown.
GMN 10515 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12708
2005 TAYLOR, Mark J.; MAKUNDE, Williams Holmes; MCGARRY, Helen F.; ET AL
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…
GMN 11193 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13390
2005 BERRIMAN, Matthew; GHEDIN, Elodie (1967 – ); HERTZ-FOWLER, Christiane; ET AL
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.)
GMN 11339 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13537
2006 HONG KONG MUSEUM OF MEDICAL SCIENCES SOCIETY
Plague, SARS, and the story of medicine in Hong Kong.
GMN 9763 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11951
2006 GLASS, William G.; MCDERMOTT, David H.; LIM, Jean K.
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 …
GMN 12597 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14837
2007 LITTLE, Lester Knox (1935 – )
Plague and the end of antiquity: The pandemic of 541-750. Edited by Lester K. Little.
GMN 9687 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11874
2007 ROSEN, William (1955 – 2016)
Justinian's flea: The first great plague and the end of the Roman Empire.
GMN 9688 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11875
2007 NENE, Vishvanath M.; WORTMAN, Jennifer Russo; LAWSON, Daniel; ET AL
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…
GMN 11338 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13536
2007 ECHENBERG, Myron (1940 – )
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…
GMN 11391 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13590
2007 PACKARD, Randall M. (1945 – )
The making of a tropical disease: A short history of malaria.
GMN 13290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15556
2009 SLATER, Leo B.
War and Disease: Biomedical research on malaria in the twentieth century.
GMN 9391 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11574
2009 COOK, Noble David (1941 – ); COOK, Alexandra Parma
The plague files: Crisis management in sixteenth-century Seville.
GMN 10573 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12766
2009 GILMAN, Ernest B.
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…
GMN 13274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15540
2010 COSMACINI, Giorgio (1931 – )
Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: Dalla peste nera ai giorni nostri.
GMN 8704 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10882
2010 MCNEILL, John Robert (1954 – )
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…
GMN 9389 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11572
2010 CAREY, Allison F.; WANG, Guirong; CARLSON, John R.; ET AL
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" …
GMN 11076 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13272
2010 FRANDSEN, Karl-Erick
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…
GMN 11393 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13592
2011 SILVA, Cristobal
Miraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.
GMN 10360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12552
2011 PRITT, Bobbi S.; SLOAN, Lynn M.; JOHNSON, Diep K. Hoang; ET AL
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…
GMN 10904 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13100
2011 YU, Xue-Jie; LIANG, Mi-Fang; ZHANG, Shou-Yin; ET AL
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…
GMN 10918 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13114
2012 RISSE, Guenter B. (1932 – )
Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.
GMN 7891 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10063
2012 BULMUS, Birsen
Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman empire.
An examination of Ottoman plague treatises and writers from the Black Death until 1923.
GMN 8492 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10669
2012 BYRNE, Joseph Patrick
Encylopedia of the black death.
GMN 10907 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13103