2005 TAUBENBERGER, Jeffery K. (1961 – ); TUMPEY, Terence M.; BASLER, Christopher F.; AGUILAR, Patricia V.; ET AL
Characterization of the reconstructed 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic virus.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Tumpey, Basler, Aguilar... Taubenberger. Reconstruction of the genome of the 1918 Spanish Influenza virus from frozen tissue samples from a mass grave of victims of the…
GMN 11335 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13533
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
2005 WOLFE, Nathan D. (1970 – ); CARR, Jean K.; HENIENE, Walid; BIRX, Deborah Leah (1956 – ); ET AL
Emergence of unique primate T-lymphotropic viruses among central African bushmeat hunters.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Wolfe, Heniene, Carr ...Birx.... "As of 2016, 301 terrestrial mammals were threatened with extinction due to hunting for bushmeat including primates, even-toed ungulate…
GMN 12113 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14322
2006 BADO, Jean-Paul
Les conquêtes de la médecine moderne en Afrique. Edited by Jean-Paul Bado.
GMN 7924 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10097
2006 EDMOND, Rod
Leprosy and empire: A medical and cultural history.
"An interdisciplinary study of why a disease that is so difficult to catch has caused such alarm. It examines how the fear of leprosy was part of nineteenth-century imperial expansion, as colonial officials and missio…
GMN 8905 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11083
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 HAHN, Beatrice H. (1955 – ); KEELE, Brandon F.; HEUVERSWYN, Fran van; LI, Yingying; ET AL
Chimpanzee reservoirs of pandemic and nonpandemic HIV-1.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Keele, Van Heuverswyn, Li, Hahn. Definitive proof that SIVcpz circulated and existed in wild chimps in a given area of Africa, and that a mutation of this specific SIV in Afr…
GMN 11041 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13237
2006 RAOULT, Didier (1952 – ); BIRG, Marie-Laure; FENOLLAR, Florence
Culture of T. whipplei from the stool of a patient with Whipple's disease.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Raoult, Fenollar, Birg. Raoult and colleagues cultured the infectious agent of Whipple's disease from the stool of a patient with the disease. In the process the author…
GMN 11982 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14190
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
2006 BHATTACHARYA, Sanjoy (1968 – )
Expunging variola: The control and eradication of smallpox in India 1947-1977.
GMN 13890 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16180
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 SHUTTLETON, David E.
Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820.
GMN 9704 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11891
2007 PEMBERTON, Neil; WORBOYS, Michael
Rabies in Britain: Dogs, disease and culture, 1830-2000.
Also published as Mad dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000.
GMN 9777 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11965
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
2007 CARTER, Jimmy (1924 – )
Beyond the White House, waging peace, fighting disease, and building hope.
President Carter devoted half of this book to Guinea worm disease, nature of the illness, its epidemiology, its cause and the current importance from a public health and human suffering standpoint. Carter's leadership…
GMN 14128 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16439
2008 GREENWOOD, David (1935 – 2015)
Antimicrobial drugs: Chronicle of a twentieth century medical triumph.
Concerns the history of all anti-infectives, including antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antiprotozoal and anthelminthic agents.
GMN 9683 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11870
2008 BRUNTON, Deborah
The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.
GMN 9878 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12066
2008 HERVÉ, Bazin
L'Histoire des vaccinations.
Translated and significantly revised and enlarged as Vaccination: A history from Lady Montagu to genetic engineering (Montrouge: John Libbey Eurotext: 2011).
GMN 10014 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12203
2008 GILBERT, Pamela K. (1964 – )
Cholera and nation: Doctoring the Victorian social body.
GMN 10509 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12702
2008 PARASCANDOLA, John (1941 – )
Sex, sin, and science: A history of syphilis in America.
GMN 12214 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14425
2009 HENDERSON, Donald Ainslie (1928 – 2016)
Smallpox--the death of a disease: The inside story of eradicating a worldwide killer.
GMN 7548 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9720
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 HÜTTER, Gero (1968 – ); ET AL
Long-term control of HIV by CCR5 Delta32/Delta32 stem-cell transplantation.
Gero Hütter and co-authors reported the first long-term remission or "cure" of HIV/AIDS in a human. The patient, Timothy Ray Brown also known as "The Berlin Patient" also suffered from myeloid leukemia and underwent s…
GMN 10775 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12971
2009 KOCH, Robert Heinrich Hermann (1843 – 1910); GRADMANN, Christoph
Laboratory disease: Robert Koch's medical bacteriology.
GMN 12384 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14609
2009 FOLEY, Paul Bernard
Encephalitis lethargica and influenza. 1: The role of the influenza virus in the influenza pandemic of 1918/1919. 2: The influenza pandemic of 1918/19 and encephalitis lethargica: Epidemiology and symptoms. 3: The influenza pandemic of 1918/19 and encephalitis lethargica: Neuropathology and discussion.
Parts 2 and 3 are freely available from PubMedCentral at this link, and at this link.
GMN 12641 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14882
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
2009 MANN, Barbara Alice (1947 – )
The tainted gift: The disease method of frontier expansion.
GMN 13711 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15995
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 WILLIAMS, Gareth
Angel of death: The story of smallpox.
GMN 10220 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12410
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
2010 ARITA, Isao (1926 – )
The smallpox eradication saga: An insider's view.
GMN 13789 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16076
2011 ARMUS, Diego
The ailing city: Health, tuberculosis, and culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950.
GMN 7940 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10115
2011 SILVA, Cristobal
Miraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.
GMN 10360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12552
2011 FOEGE, William Herbert (1936 – )
House on fire: The fight to eradicate smallpox.
Foege, as director of the Centers for Disease Control, is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s".[4]
GMN 10625 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12818
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
2011 HARPER, Kristin N.; ZUCKERMAN, Molly K.; HARPER, Megan L.; ARMELAGOS, George J. (1936 – 2014); KINGSTON, John D.
The origin and antiquity of syphilis revisited: An Appraisal of Old World pre‐Columbian evidence for treponemal infection.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Harper, Zuckerman, Harper, Kingston, Armelagos. Abstract: "For nearly 500 years, scholars have argued about the origin and antiquity of syphilis. Did Columbus bring the…
GMN 12080 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14289
2011 CHIU, Charles Y.; DERISI, Joseph L.; CHEN, Eunice C.; MILLER, Steve A.
Using a pan-viral microarray assay (Virochip) to screen clinical samples for viral pathogens.
Direct link to the Journal of Visualized Experiments, JOVE.com: https://www.jove.com/video/2536/using-pan-viral-microarray-assay-virochip-to-screen-clinical-samples Using a Pan-Viral Microarray Assay (Virochip) to Scr…
GMN 12440 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14672
2011 ROWLEY, Anne H.; BAKER, Susan C.; SHULMAN, Stanford T.; ET AL
Ultrastructural, immunofluorescence, and RNA evidence support the hypothesis of a "new" virus associated with Kawasaki disease.
The authors concluded that a very common infectious agent, one that usually results in an asymptomatic infection, causes Kawasaki disease in a subset of genetically predisposed children. They argued that the available…
GMN 12719 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14965
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 HARDEN, Victoria Angela
AIDS at 30: A history.
GMN 9538 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11724
2012 HARRISON, Mark
Contagion: How commerce has spread disease.
GMN 10418 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12611
2012 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
Severe respiratory illness associated with a novel coronavirus - Saudi Arabia and Qatar, 2012.
Reports on the first two patients affected by a "new" coronavirus. The first patient, hospitalized in June 2012, died, and the other was in both pulmonary and renal failure. In this paper the CDC referenced a website …
GMN 10876 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13072
