2012 ZAKI, Ali Mohamed; BOHEEMEN, Sander van; BESTEFROER, Theo M.; ET AL
Brief Report: Isolation of a novel coronavirus from a man with pneumonia in Saudi Arabia.
This paper, dated November 8, 2012, characterized the virus up to and including its genome sequence, including radiology and imaging findings, lab findings, diagnosis and management. The authors tentatively named the …
GMN 10877 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13073
2012 BYRNE, Joseph Patrick
Encylopedia of the black death.
GMN 10907 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13103
2012 MCMULLAN, Laura K.; FOLK, Scott; KELLY, Aubree J.; ET AL
A new phlebovirus associated with severe febrile illness in Missouri.
Order of authorship in the original paper: McMullan, Folk, Kelly. Discovery of a new Phlebovirus, which the authors name the "Heartland virus" and with high probability that Amblyoma is the tick vector. Digital facsim…
GMN 10915 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13111
2012 ORIEL, J. David
The scars of Venus: A history of venereology.
GMN 12154 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14364
2013 ARTENSTEIN, Andrew W.
In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.
GMN 8100 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10276
2013 SMITH, Billy G.
Ship of death: A voyage that changed the Atlantic world.
A multi-disciplinary account from the perspectives of the history of the slave trade, the anti-slavery movement and medical history, of the voyage of the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792-…
GMN 9374 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11557
2013 WILLIAMS, Gareth
Paralysed with fear: The story of polio.
GMN 10219 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12409
2013 BYERLY, Carol R.
"Good tuberculosis men": The Army Medical Department's stuggle with tuberculosis.
Digital facsimile from cs.amedd.army.mil at this link.
GMN 10414 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12607
2013 KOTAR, Susan Louellen; GESSLER, J. E.
Smallpox: A history.
GMN 10772 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12968
2013 MEMISH, Ziad A.; MISHRA, Nischay; OLIVAL, Kevin J.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in bats, Saudi Arabia.
Dated November 2013. The authors collected bat feces from sites in Bisha, Saudi Arabia found less than 1-12 kilometers from the place of employment or home of an index case-patient there, and performed total nucleic a…
GMN 10878 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13074
2013 MEAD, S.; GANDHI, Sonia; BECK, Jon; COLLINGE, John; ET AL
A novel prion disease associated with diarrhea and autonomic neuropathy.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Mead, Gandhi, Beck, Collinge. Collinge was the main author. Digital facsimile from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)
GMN 11045 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13241
2013 NOOD, Els van; VRIEZE, Anne; NIEUWDORP, Max; ET AL
Duodenal infusion of donor feces for recurrent Clostridium difficile.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Nood, Vrieze, Nieuwdorp....This research provided convincing evidence that fecal donation (faecal microbiota transplantation) is more effective therapy for virulent C. …
GMN 11459 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13658
2013 ADLER, Richard
Cholera in Detroit: A history.
GMN 12141 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14350
2014 MILLER, Timothy S.; NESBITT, John W.
Walking corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West.
Leprosy first became known to Europeans during the 12th century when a frightening epidemic ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing charitable institutions called leprosariums to treat the rapidl…
GMN 7220 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9388
2014 PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – )
Madness and memory: The discovery of prions- a new biological principle of disease.
Prusiner discovered prions, the agent causing scrapie in sheep and goats, mad cow disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
GMN 7624 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9796
2014 KOTAR, Susan Louellen; GESSLER, J. E.
Cholera: A worldwide history.
GMN 10771 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12967
2014 LEMEY, Phillippe; FARIA, Nuno R.; RAMBAUT, Andrew; SUCHARD, Marc A. (1972 – ); ET AL
The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations.
Using the viral genome isolated from the archival serum of the "Kinshasa patient", Lemey, Faria and colleagues deduced that the prototype African viral strain first crossed from monkeys to humans about 1920 in the are…
GMN 10778 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12974
2014 AZHAR, Esam I.; EL-KAFRAWY, Sherif; FARRAJ, Suma A.; ET AL
Brief report: Evidence for camel-to-human transmission of MERS coronavirus.
Dated June 26, 2014. Using viral genomics and PCR, the Saudi authors demonstrated that full genome sequences of a man, and the camel he had contact with, were identical. Available from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks t…
GMN 10879 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13075
2014 BAIZE, Sylvain; PANNETIER, Delphine; OESTEREICH, Lisa; ET AL
Emergence of Zaire Ebola virus disease in Guinea.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Baize, Pannetier, Oestereich. The authors used PCR, viral sequencing, and phylogenetic analysis to track down the index case, a two-year-old child in Meliandou village, Guéké…
GMN 10928 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13124
2014 SCHIEFFELIN, John S.; SCHAFFER, Jeffrey G.; GOBA, Augustine; ET AL
Clinical illness and outcomes in patients with Ebola in Sierra Leone.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Schieffelin, Shaffer, Goba. The authors used "quantitative reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction assays to assess the load of Ebola virus (EBOV, Zaire species) in a…
GMN 10929 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13125
2014 LYON, G. Marshall; MEHTA, Aneesh K.; VARKEY, Jay B.; ET AL
Clinical care of two patients with Ebola virus disease in the United States.
Report on Ebola virus disease management from the Emory University unit and its specialists detailing the diagnosis, management, complications and expectations of this illness for infectious disease physicians. The au…
GMN 10930 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13126
2014 THE INTERNATIONAL GLOSSINA GENOME INITIATIVE
Genome sequence of the Tsetse Fly (Glossina morsitans): Vector of African Tyrpanosomiasis.
The Internation Glossina Genome Initiative consisted of 179 collaborators. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 11340 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13538
2014 TSIAMIS, George; FALCHETTO, Marco; BRELSFOARD, Corey; ET AL
Presence of extensive Wolbachia symbiont insertions discovered in the genome of its host Glossina morsitans morsitans.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Brelsfoard, Tsiamis, Falchetto....The authors suggested that infection by Wolbachia may give a reproductive advantage to the fly that carries the parasite causing Sleep…
GMN 11341 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13539
2014 WILSON, Michael R.; NACCACHE, Samia N.; SAMAYOA, Erik; CHIU, Charles Y.; ET AL
Actionable diagnosis of neuroleptospirosis by next-generation sequencing.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Wilson, Naccache, Samayoa...Chiu. This research demonstrated the value of "next-generation-sequencing" in the diagnosis of a specific meningoencephalitis, a disease whi…
GMN 11397 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13596
2014 U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
Global Health Events web archive.
Global Health Events web archive "Collected by: National Library of Medicine "Archived since: Oct, 2014 "Description: "A selective collection of over 12,000 web resources archived by the National Library of Medicine b…
GMN 12155 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14365
2014 KENNY, Elizabeth (1886 – 1952); ROGERS, Naomi (1958 – )
Polio wars: Sister Kenny and the golden age of American medicine
"During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's "other war at home": they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly…
GMN 12380 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14605
2014 PASTULA, David M.; ALIABADI, Negar; MILLER, Lisa Ann; ET AL
Acute neurologic illness of unknown etiology in children - Colorado, August-September 2014.
The authors reported a cluster of 9 children seen at Colorado Children's Hospital with an acute neurologic illness characterized by extremity weakness, cranial nerve dysfunction, diplopia (double vision), facial droop…
GMN 12713 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14959
2014 MASTERSON, Karen M.
The malaria project: The U.S. government's secret mission to find a miracle cure.
"....the story of America's secret mission to combat malaria during World War II—a campaign modeled after a German project which tested experimental drugs on men gone mad from syphilis. "American war planners, foresee…
GMN 12799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15045
2014 ELKINGTON, Bethany Gwen; SOEJARTO, Djala Djendoel; SYDARA, Kongmany
Ethnobotany of tuberculosis in Laos.
GMN 13213 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15476
2015 KELTON, Paul
Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.
GMN 7504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9676
2015 THOMPSON, C. Michele
Vietnamese traditional medicine: A social history.
Reception of foreign medical ideas and techniques through the case study of smallpox.
GMN 8042 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10218
2015 VARLIK, Nükhet
Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.
GMN 8274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10450
2015 MROCZKOWSKI, Tomasz F.
History, sex and syphilis: Famous syphilitics and their private lives.
GMN 8800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10978
2015 SANTER, Melvin (1926 – 2015)
Confronting contagion: Our evolving understanding of disease.
GMN 9202 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11383
2015 ELLIS, John H.
Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.
"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…
GMN 9859 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12047
2015 MCCANN, James C. (1950 – )
The historical ecology of malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the spirits.
GMN 10800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12996
2015 PRITT, Bobbi S.; JOHNSON, Diep K. Hoang; SCHIFFMAN, Elizabeth K.; DAVIS, Jeffrey P.; ET AL
Human infection with Ehrlichia muris-like pathogen, United States, 2007-2013.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Johnson, Schiffman, Davis, Pritt. The authors, found some commonality in this pathogen, originally designated generally as "Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009" with the mous…
GMN 10905 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13101
2015 KOSOY, Olga L.; LAMBERT, Amy J.; HAWKINSON, Dana J.; STAPLES, Jennifer Erin; ET AL
Novel thogotovirus associated with febrile illness and death, United States, 2014.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Kosoy, Lambert, Hawkinson, Staples. Discovery of a new tick-borne Thogotovirus named by the authors "Bourbon virus" after Bourbon County, Kansas. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for th…
GMN 10917 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13113
2015 LUO, Li-Mei; ZHAO, Li; WEN, Hong-Ling; ET AL
Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks as reservoir and vector of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in China.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Luo, Zhao, Wen. Discovery that the tick H longicornis can transmit the SFTSV transstadially and transovarially, and could potentially be both the reservoir and vector of the …
GMN 10919 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13115
2015 JACKSON, Myles W. (1964 – )
The genealogy of a gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and race.
"Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied “genealogy” of CCR5—intellectual property, natural selection, Big and Sma…
GMN 11368 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13567
2015 HARDY, Anne
Salmonella infections, networks of knowledge, and public health in Britain, 1880-1975.
GMN 11442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13641
2015 AKIRA, Hayami (1929 – )
The influenza pandemic in Japan, 1918-1920: The first world war between humankind and a virus. Translation by Lynne E. Riggs and Takechi Manbu.
GMN 11923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14128
2015 VAN HAREN, Keith; AYSCUE, Patrick; WAUBANT, Emmanuelle L.; ET AL
Acute flaccid myelitis of unknown etiology in California, 2012-2015
The authors presented a retrospective study based on demographics, race, ethnicity, signs, lab results, MRI results of 59 patients identified between June 2012 and July 2015 who presented symptoms that they characteri…
GMN 12714 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14960
2015 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564); GARRISON, Daniel H.
Vesalius: The China Root epistle. A new translation and critical edition, edited and translated by Daniel H. Garrison, with added illustrations from the 1543 and 1555 De humani corporis fabrica.
GMN 13024 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15274
2015 BUSVINE, James Robert
Insects, hygiene and history.
GMN 13186 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15447
2015 TOMIC, Zlata Blažina (1926 – ); BLAŽINA, Vesna
Expelling the plague: The Health Office and the implementation of quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377-1533.
GMN 13531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15808
2015 REINHARDT, Rob H.
The end of a global pox: America and the eradication of smallpox in the cold war era.
GMN 13891 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16183
2016 CAMPBELL, Bruce M. S.
The great transition: Climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world.
GMN 9694 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11881
2016 LYNTERIS, Christos
Ethnographic plague: Configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier.
"Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to…
GMN 9895 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12083
2016 GROSS, Miriam
Farewell to the god of plague: Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China.
GMN 10096 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12285