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).

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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