1863 MARSTON, Jeffery Allen (1831 – 1911)

Report on fever (Malta).

Marston wrote the first description of Malta fever as a distinct disease. He contracted the disease while serving in the Mediterranean area and described his own case. Marston was apparently the first to describe “Wei…

GMN 5097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6018

1887 BRUCE, Sir David (1855 – 1931)

Note on the discovery of a micro-organism in Malta fever.

Malta fever was shown by Bruce to be due to Micrococcus (Brucella) melitensis. The disease was later named Brucellosis.

GMN 5098 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6020

1897 BANG, Bernhard Laurits Frederik (1848 – 1932)

Die Aetiologie des seuchenhaften (“infectiösen”) Verwerfens.

Discovery of Brucella abortus.

GMN 5099 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6023

1897 HUGHES, Matthew Louis (1867 – 1899)

Mediterranean, Malta, or undulant fever.

An authoritative summary of current knowledge of Malta fever.

GMN 5100 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6025

1897 WRIGHT, Sir Almroth Edward (1861 – 1947); SMITH, Frederick

On the application of the serum test to the differential diagnosis of typhoid and Malta fever.

Agglutination test for the diagnosis of undulant fever.

GMN 5101 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6028

1905 –1907

REPORTS of the Commission appointed by the Admiralty, the War Office, and the Civil Government of Malta, for the investigation of Mediterranean fever, under the supervision of an advisory committee of the Royal Society. 7 pts.

The important findings of the Mediterranean Fever Commission are summarized in Topley & Wilson’s Bacteriology,1975, p. 2173; probably the most valuable was that of T. Zammit, who showed goat’s milk to be the main sour…

GMN 5102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6032

1905 ZAMMIT, Themistocles (1864 – 1935)

A preliminary note on the susceptibility of goats to Malta fever.

Zammit discovered that contaminated goat milk was the vector for transmission to humans of the Malta fever bacterium, Brucellosis melitensis. At the time goat milk was a primary source of milk in Malta and other parts…

GMN 10780 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12976

1925 EVANS, Alice Catharine (1881 – 1975)

Studies on Brucella (Alkaligenes) melitensis.

Forms Bulletin No. 143 of the U.S. Public Health Service Hygienic Laboratory. Alice Evans showed that the causal organism of Malta fever was closely related to Brucella abortus, responsible for contagious abortion in …

GMN 5103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6034