1925 FLETCHER, William ( – 1938); LESSLAR, J. E.

Tropical typhus in the Federated Malay States, with a compilation on epidemic typhus.

Bull. Inst. med. Res., F. M. S., No. 2. Drew attention to scrub typhus in Malaya.

GMN 5394 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7160

1931 OGATA, Norio (1883 – )

Aetiologie der Tsutsugamushi-Kiankheit: Rickettsia tsutsugamushi.

Ogata isolated the causal agent of tsutsugamushi disease, Orientia Tsutsugamushi, in 1927.

GMN 5396.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7176

1940 LEWTHWAITE, Raymond (1894 – 1972); SAVOOR, S. R. (1900 – 1980)

Rickettsia disease of Malaya. Identity of tsutsugamushi and rural typhus.

Lewthwaite and Savoor showed scrub typhus to be identical to tsutsugamushi fever.

GMN 5398.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7195

1945 FULTON, Forrest (1913 – 1971); JOYNER, L

Cultivation of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi in lungs of rodents. Preparation of a scrub-typhus vaccine.

Scrub-typhus vaccine.

GMN 5399 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7205