1929 LEIPER, Robert Thomson (1881 – 1969)
Landmarks in medical helminthology.
GMN 2463 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3014
1932 AUGUSTINE, Donald Leslie (1895 – ); THEILER, Hans (1894 – )
Precipitin and skin tests as aids in diagnosing trichinosis.
Intradermal test for trichinosis.
GMN 5351.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6880
1932 KNOWLES, Robert (1883 – 1936); DAS GUPTA, Biraj Mohan (Dasgupta) (1889 – 1945)
A study of monkey-malaria, and its experimental transmission to man.
Das Gupta and his supervisor Robert Knowles first described Plasmodium knowlesi as a distinct species, and as a potential cause of human malaria in 1932 when they described the morphology of the parasite in macaque bl…
GMN 12586 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14825
1933 –1937 ALEXANDER OF TRALLES [ἈΛΈΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΌΣ; ALEXANDER TRALLIANUS] (525 – 605); BRUNET, Félix Louis Emile (1872 – 1958)
Médecine et thérapeutique byzantines: Oeuvres médicales d’Alexander de Tralles, le dernier auteur classique des grands médecins grecs de l’antiquité. Ed. F. Brunet. 4 vols.
GMN 35.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8759
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
1938 JAMES, Sydney Price (1870 – 1946); TAIT, P
Exo-erythrocytic schizogony in Plasmodium gallinaceum Brumpt, 1935.
The term “exo-erythrocytic stage” introduced to describe the unpigmented schizonts found in tissue cells. The parasite Plasmodium gallincaceum described by Alexandre Joseph Emile Brumpt causes malaria in poultry.
GMN 5258 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8541
1940 MUDROW, Lilly (1908 – 1957)
Klinische und parasitologische Befunde und chemotherapeutische Ergebnisse bei der Hühnermalaria.
Discovery of the developmental forms of P. gallinaceum in the incubation period.
GMN 5259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8542
1940 SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987); ET AL
The form of Plasmodium, gallinaceum present in the incubation period of the infection.
Independently of Mudrow, H. E. Shortt, K. P. Menon, and P. V. Seetharama Iyer found pre-erythrocytic forms of P. gallinaceum in the tissues.
GMN 5259.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8543
1944 HUFF, Clay G. (1900 – ); COULSTON, Frederick (1914 – 2003)
The development of Plasmodium gallinaceum from sporozoite to erythrocytic trophozoite.
First detailed account of the full cycle of development of the avian malaria parasite P. gallinaceum.
GMN 5259.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8544
1944 JONCKHEERE, Frans (1903 – 1956)
Une maladie Égyptienne: l'hématurie parasitaire.
GMN 8470 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10647
1946 MOST, Harry (1907 – 1994); LONDON, Irving M. (1918 – 2018); LAVIETES, Paul Harold (1907 – 1990)
Chloroquine for treatment of acute attacks of vivax malaria.
Harry Most led the development of chloroquine for use in treating American troops suffering from malaria. At the beginning of the American involvement in the war there were more American casualties from malaria than f…
GMN 5261.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8547
1948 ALVING, Alf Sven (1902 – 1965)
Pentaquine (Sn-13,276), a therapeutic agent effective in reducing the relapse rate in vivax malaria.
Clinical trials of pentaquine. With B. Craige, R. Jones, C. M. Whorton, T. N. Pullman, and L. Eichelberger.
GMN 5261.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8548
1948 SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987); ET AL
The pre-erythrocytic stage of mammalian malaria.
Demonstration of the pre-erythrocytic stage of P. cynomolgi in the monkey. With P. C. C. Garnham and B. Malamos. Preliminary communication in Nature (Lond.), 1948, 161, 126.
GMN 5262 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8549
1948 SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987)
The pre-erythrocytic stage of human malaria Plasmodium vivax.
With P. C. C. Garnham, G. Covell, and P. G. Shute.
GMN 5262.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8550
1949 SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987)
The pre-erythrocytic stage of Plasmodium falciparum. A preliminary note.
With N. H. Fairley, G. Covell, P. G. Shute, and P. C. C. Garnham. See also Trans. roy. Soc. trop. Med. Hyg., 1951, 44, 405-19.
GMN 5262.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8551
1957 ŠKRABALO, Zdenko (1929 – 2014); DEANOVIC, Z.
Piroplasmosis in man: Report on a case.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Škrabalo, Deanovic. First report of a case of babesiosis in a human, in this case an immunocompromised patient in Zagreb, (now Croatia). Piroplasmosis is another term for …
GMN 10886 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13082
1958 WIJERS, D. J. B.
Factors that may influence the infection rate of Glossina palpalis with Trypanomosoma gambiense. 1. The age of the fly at the time of the infected feed.
Wijers showed that the tsetse fly is infected during its first or second blood meal, but not afterwards, information of considerable importance in determining the criteria for the transmission of trypanosomiasis.
GMN 5289.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6373
1959 HOEPPLI, Reinhard (1893 – 1973)
Parasites and parasitic infections in early medicine and science.
GMN 10676 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12869
1964 KEAN, Benjamin Harrison (1912 – 1993); BRESLAU, Roger C.
Parasites of the human heart.
GMN 11672 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13873
1965 FOSTER, William Derek (1925 – 1981)
A history of parasitology.
GMN 2463.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3018
1969 HOEPPLI, Reinhard (1893 – 1973)
Parasitic diseases in Africa and the Western Hemisphere. Early documentation and transmission by the slave trade.
GMN 10675 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12868
1970 WESTERN, Karl A.; BENSON, Gordon D.; GLEASON, Neva N.; ET AL
Babesiosis in a Massachusetts resident.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Western, Benson, Gleason. First report of babesiosis in a non-immuncompromised patient, confirming the potential wide spread of this tick-transmitted illness. (Thanks to J…
GMN 10887 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13083
1976 MILLER, Louis Howard (1935 – ); MASON, Steven J.; CLYDE, David Francis (1925 – 2002); ET AL
The resistance factor to Plasmodium vivax in blacks.
The authors showed that the Plasmodium vivax parasite requires the Fya/Fyb Duffy antigen/chemokine receptor on the surface of red blood cells for penetration of human red blood cells. Because most African and American…
GMN 11888 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14093
1976 YARDLEY, John Howard (1926 – 2011); NIME, Freda A.; BUREK, Joe D.; ET AL
Acute enterocolitis in a human being infected with the protozoan Cryptosporidium.
First report of infection by Cryptosporidium in a human being. "Abstract "A 3-year-old child with severe acute self-limited enterocolitis was found on rectal biopsy to be infected with the protozoal parasite Cryptospo…
GMN 12434 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14666
1978 KEAN, Benjamin Harrison (1912 – 1993); MOTT, Kenneth Eugene (1939 – 1997); RUSSELL, Adair J.
Tropical medicine and parasitology: Classic investigations. 2 vols.
About 200 key papers, reproduced in whole or in part, in English translation where necessary. Includes useful biographical notes.
GMN 2268.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2832
1979 SPIELMAN, Andrew (1930 – 2006); CLIFFORD, Carlton M.; PIESMAN, Joseph; ET AL
Human babesiosis on Nantucket Island, USA: Description of the vector, Ixodes dammini, N. Sp. (Acarina: Ixodidae)
Order of authorship in the original paper was Spielman, Clifford, Piesman. The authors identified and described the insect vector of Babesiosis. This was a new species; the same species causes Lyme disease. (Thanks to…
GMN 10888 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13084
1983 CAMPBELL, William Cecil (1930 – )
Trichinella and trichinosis. Edited by William C. Campbell.
The first chapter of this authoritative study is a very detailed historical introduction by William C. Campbell, with a comprehensive bibliography. Campbell also authored Chapter 10: Chemotherapy and Chapter 13: Epide…
GMN 12658 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14902
1990 KEAN, Benjamin Harrison (1912 – 1993)
One doctor's adventures among the famous and infamous from the jungles of Panama to a Park Avenue practice. With Tracy Dahlby.
GMN 12649 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14890
1990 GROVE, David I.
A history of human helminthology.
GMN 13514 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15789
1991 KEAN, Benjamin Harrison (1912 – 1993); SUN, Tsieh; ELLSWORTH, Robert Malcolm (1928 – 1994)
Color atlas/text of ophthalmic parasitology. Edited by B. H. Kean, Tsieh Sun, and Robert M. Ellsworth.
Probably the first ophthalmic textbook devoted exclusively to parasitic infections, discussing diseases caused by protozoa, nematodes, cestodes, trematodes, and arthropods.
GMN 12650 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14892
1993 ORTEGA, Ynes R.; STERLING, Charles R.; GILMAN, Robert H.; ET AL
Cyclospora species - A new protozoan pathogen of humans.
Ortega and colleagues identified a novel parasite resembling C. muris in the feces of Peruvian patients and 2 U.S. patients, with symptoms resembling those of infections with Cryptosporidium. The parasite infected bot…
GMN 12435 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14667
1994 ORTEGA, Ynes R.; STERLING, Charles R.; GILMAN, Robert H.
A new coccidian parasite (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from humans.
Based on very high magnification electron transmission micrographs and contrast microscopy, Ortega and colleagues fully characterized the parasite and named it Cyclospora cayetanensis n. sp., naming it after Universid…
GMN 12436 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14668
1995 PERSING, David H.; HERWALDT, Barbara L.; GLASER, Carol; ET AL
Infection with a Babesia-like organism in Northern California.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Persing, Herwaldt, Glaser. First report of a Basisa duncani infection in humans (4 patients). The authors designated the infection as Babesia (WA1) strain transmitted by I…
GMN 10889 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13085
2002 COX, T. E. G.
History of human parasitology.
Full text, with extensive bibliography, from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 10221 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12411
2002 GARDNER, Malcolm J.; HALL, Neil; FUNG, Eula; ET AL
Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Gardner, Hall, Fung.... Genome of the Plasmodium falciparum parasite carried by the mosquito that causes malaria in humans. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its i…
GMN 11336 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13534
2002 HOLT, Robert A.; SUBRAMANIAN, G. Mani; HALPERN, Aaron L.; ET AL
The genome sequence of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Holt, Subramanian, Halpern.... Sequence of the genome of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito that carries the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. (Thanks to Juan Weiss…
GMN 11337 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13535
2002 COX, F. E. G.
History of human parasitology.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 12901 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15148
2005 TAYLOR, Mark J.; MAKUNDE, Williams Holmes; MCGARRY, Helen F.; ET AL
Macrofilaricidal activity after doxycycline treatment of Wuchereria bancrofti: A double blind randomized placebo-controlled trial.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Taylor, Makunde, McGarry.... The authors treated infection by the parasitic worm Wuchereria bancrofti, cause of elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis), by killing the Wolbachia…
GMN 11193 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13390
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
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
2013 KIRK, Robert G. W.; PEMBERTON, Neil
Leech.
Published in the "Animal" series. Seemingly a definitive work on the natural history and medical application of leeches.
GMN 8683 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10860
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
2015 MITCHELL, Piers D.
Sanitation, latrines and intestinal parasites in past populations. Edited by Piers D. Mitchell.
GMN 9705 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11892
2015 BUSVINE, James Robert
Insects, hygiene and history.
GMN 13186 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15447
2016 GROSS, Miriam
Farewell to the god of plague: Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China.
GMN 10096 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12285
2016 DUTRA, Heverton Leandor Carneiro; ROCHA, Marcele Neves; MOREIRA, Luciano Andrade; ET AL
Wolbachia blocks currently circulating Zika virus isololates in Brazilian Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Dutra, Rocha, Moreira. The authors infected lab populations of mosquitos with Wolbachia pipientis, a common parasitic microbe that infects a high proportion of insects. They …
GMN 10942 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13138
2016 JANOVY, John Jr. (1937 – ); ESCH, Gerald W.
A century of parasitology: Discoveries, ideas and lessons learned by scientists who published in The Journal of Parasitology, 1914-2014. Edited by John Janovy, Jr. and Gerald W. Esch.
GMN 13505 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15780
