1880 EBERTH, Carl Joseph (1835 – 1926)
Die Organismen in den Organen bei Typhus abdominalis.
Salmonella typhi, causal organism of typhoid, was discovered by Eberth. Some European writers refer to the disease as “Eberth’s disease”.
GMN 5030 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6764
1881 KLEBS, Theodor Albrecht Edwin (1834 – 1913)
Der Bacillus des Abdominaltyphus und dertyphöse Process.
Klebs probably saw the typhoid bacillus before Eberth, reporting it later.
GMN 5031 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5741
1884 GAFFKY, Georg Theodor August (1850 – 1918)
Zur Aetiologie des Abdominaltyphus.
Gaffky was the first to grow pure cultures of Salmonella typhi; he showed it to be the true activator of the disease. English translation, New Sydenham Society, 1886. Digital facsimile of the 1884 printing from Google…
GMN 5032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5747
1886 SMITH, Theobald (1859 – 1934); SALMON, Daniel Elmer (1850 – 1914)
The bacterium of swine-plague.
Discovery of Salmonella choleraesuis. The Salmonellae tribe was named after Salmon, even though the discovery was made by Smith. See Bibel, Milestones in immunology (1988) 31-32.
GMN 2505 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3214
1888 GÄRTNER, August Anton Hieronymous (1848 – 1934)
Ueber die Fleischvergiftung in Frankenhausen. a.K. und den Erreger derselben.
Discovery of Salmonella enteritidis, a cause of food poisoning.
GMN 2506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3223
1892 LOEFFLER, Friedrich August Johann (1852 – 1915)
Ueber Epidemieen unter den im hygienischen Institute zu Greifswald gehaltenen Mäusen und über die Bekämpfung der Feldmausplage.
Isolation of Salm. typhi-murium.
GMN 2507 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3231
1896 DURHAM, Herbert Edward (1866 – 1945); GRUBER, Max von (1853 – 1927)
Eine neue Methode zur raschen Erkennung des Choleravibrio und des Typhusbacillus.
The discovery of bacterial agglutination. Gruber and Durham discovered the agglutinating action of the serum of typhoid patients upon the typhoid bacillus. First briefly reported by Durham: On a special action of seru…
GMN 2549 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3604
1898 DURHAM, Herbert Edward (1866 – 1945)
On an epidemic of gastro-enteritis associated with the presence of a variety of the Bacillus enteritidis (Gaertner), and with positive sero-diagnostic evidence (in vivo and in vitro).
Discovery of Salm. Aertrycke in patients suffering from food poisoning.
GMN 2513 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3256
1898 NOBELE, Jules de (1865 – 1946)
Du séro-diagnostic dans les affections gastro-intestinales d’origine alimentaire.
Discovery of Salmonella aertrycke, independently of Durham.
GMN 2514 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3259
1898 GWYN, Norman Beechey (1875 – 1952)
On infection with a para-colon bacillus in a case with all the clinical features of typhoid fever.
Isolation of Salmonella paratyphi A.
GMN 5038 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5784
1908 UHLENHUTH, Paul Theodor (1870 – 1957); HUBENER, Erich August (1870 – )
Weitere Mitteilungen über Schweinepest mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Bakteriologie der Hogcholeragruppe.
First description of Salmonella paratyphi C.
GMN 5041 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5815
1919 HIRSZFELD, Ludwik Maurycy [Hirschfeld] (1884 – 1954)
A new generation of paratyphoid.
Hirszfeld gave an important description of Salmonella paratyphi C. (“Hirszfeld’s bacillus”).
GMN 5044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5822
1931 KAUFFMANN, Fritz (1899 – 1978)
Der heutige Stand der Paratyphusforschung.
Kauffmann–White classification of Salmonella based on antigenic structure. For historical note, including the part played by P. B. White, see J. Hyg. (camb), 1934, 34, 335.
GMN 5044.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5823
1952 LEDERBERG, Joshua (1925 – 2008); ZINDER, Norton David (1928 – 2012)
Genetic exchange in Salmonella.
Description of a new mechanism (“transduction”) for the transfer of genetic characters from one bacterial strain to another.
GMN 256.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8698
