1905 CASTELLANI, Aldo (1877 – 1971)
On the presence of spirochaetes in two cases of ulcerated parangi (yaws).
Castellani demonstrated in scrapings of yaws tissue a spirochaete, T. pertenue, later found to be the causal organism. He thus finally established it as a distinct organism from the syphilis spirochaete. Preliminary n…
GMN 5306 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6557
1905 WELLMANN, Frederick Creighton (1871 – 1960)
On a spirochaete found in yaws papules.
Independently of Castellani (No. 5306) Wellmann discovered Treponema pertenue. "In addition to being an author, Wellman was also a doctor of tropical medicine, scientist, administrator, artist, educator, spy, and engi…
GMN 5307 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6559
1906 REUTER, Karl
Ueber Spirochaeta pallida in der Aortenwand bei Hellerscher Aortitis.
Treponema pallidum first discovered in the diseased aorta.
GMN 2824 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3531
1911 NOGUCHI, Hideyo (1876 – 1928)
A method for the pure cultivation of pathogenic Treponema pallidum (Spirochaeta pallida).
Pure culture of T. pallidum first obtained. Digital facsimile from digitalcommon.oshu.edu at this link.
GMN 2404 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3368
1913 NOGUCHI, Hideyo (1876 – 1928); MOORE, Joseph Waldron (1879 – )
A demonstration of Treponema pallidum in the brain in cases of general paralysis.
A pure culture of Trep. pallidum was obtained from a case of dementia paralytica.
GMN 4805 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1575
1938 SAENZ RICART, Braulio (1886 – 1961)
Demonstratión de un treponema en el borde activo un caso de pinto de las manos y pies y en la linfa de ganglios superficiales (reporte preliminar).
B. Saenz, J. Grau Triana, and J. Alfonso Armenteros indicated that pinta is caused by a treponeme, T. carateum.
GMN 5308.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6564
1998 VENTER, John Craig (1946 – ); SMITH, Hamilton Othanel (1931 – ); FRASER, Claire M. (1955 – ); NORRIS, Steven J.; WEINSTOCK, George M. (1949 – ); ET AL
Complete genome sequence of treponema pallidum, the syphilis spirochete.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Fraser, Norris, Weinstock....Smith, Venter. Sequence of the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 11342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13540
