1957 CANNEFAX, George Radford (1911 – ); GARSON, Warfield (1918 – 2007)
Reiter protein complement fixation test for syphilis.
See also H. Reiter, Brit. J. vener. Dis., 1960, 36, 18-20.
GMN 2419.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2876
1957 DEACON, Wilbur Eugene (1907 – ); ET AL
A fluorescent test for treponemal antibodies.
Fluorescent treponemal antibody test. With V. H. Falcone and A. Harris.
GMN 2419.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2877
1962 DENNIE, Charles Clayton (1883 – 1971)
A history of syphilis.
GMN 2432.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2891
1963 HACKETT, Cecil John (1905 – 1995)
On the origin of the human treponematoses (pinta, yaws, endemic syphilis and venereal syphilis).
“Perhaps the most scholarly investigation of the origin of syphilis” (Wesley Spink).
GMN 5308.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6568
1964 HUNTER, Elizabeth F.; ET AL
An improved FTA test for syphilis; the absorption procedure (FTA-ABS).
Absorbed fluorescent treponemal antibody (FTA-ABS) test. With W. E. Deacon and P. E. Meyer. The text is available from the NLM PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 2419.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2878
1967 RATHLEV, Tara (1927 – 2009)
Haemagglutination test utilizing pathogenic Treponema pallidum for the sero-diagnosis of syphilis.
Treponemal hemagglutination (TPHA) test.
GMN 2419.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2879
1973 TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDY AD HOC ADVISORY PANEL
Final report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel.
Digital facsimile from http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/ at this link.
GMN 8136 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10312
1981 CRISSEY, John Thorne (1924 – 2009); PARISH, Lawrence Charles
The dermatology and syphilology of the nineteenth century.
A scholarly work written in a particularly entertaining style.
GMN 4158.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5938
1981 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men--New York City and California.
The second published report on what later became the AIDS epidemic. The report described 26 homosexual men in New York and California with Kaposi's sarcoma, and 10 more Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases in ho…
GMN 6995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9161
1981 JONES, James H. (1943 – )
Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
"From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatmen…
GMN 8091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10267
1981 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC); GOTTLIEB, Michael Stuart (1947 – )
Pneumocystis pneumonia - Los Angeles.
The first paper on HIV/AIDS, reporting on June 5, 1981 on five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) seen at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) medical center. PCP was then a rare infection; ho…
GMN 9329 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11511
1983 MONTAGNIER, Luc Antoine (1932 – ); BARRÉ-SINOUSSI, Françoise (1947 – ); ET AL
Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
Isolation of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1). In 2008 Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus." The other h…
GMN 6996 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9162
1984 GALLO, Robert Charles (1937 – ); POPOVIC, Mikulas; ET AL
Detection, isolation, and continuous production of cytopathic retroviruses (HTLV-III) from patients with AIDS and pre-AIDS.
Gallo, Popovic, and colleagues demonstrated that a retrovirus they had isolated, called HTLV-III, was the cause of AIDS. M. G. Sarngadharan, and E. Read. Bibcode:1984Sci...224..497P. doi:10.1126/science.6200935. PMID …
GMN 6997 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9163
1985 KANKI, Phyllis J.; BARIN, Francis; M'BOUP, Souleymane; ET AL
Serological evidence for virus related to Simian T-Lymphotropic retrovirus III in residents of West Africa.
First report of the discovery of what became known as HIV-2 by the U.S. research group led by Kanki. This group published before the French group, but the French group had reported their data one day prior to the U.S.…
GMN 10789 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12985
1986 QUÉTEL, Claude (1939 – )
Le mal de Naples. Histoire de la syphilis.
Translated into English by Judith Braddock and Brian Pike as The history of syphilis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).
GMN 8743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10921
1986 NAHMIAS, André J. (1930 – ); WEISS, Juan E. (1952 – ); YAO, X.; KANKI, Phyllis J.; ESSEX, Myron Elmer "Max" (1939 – )
Evidence for human infection with an HTLV III/LAV-like virus in Central Africa, 1959.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Nahmias, Weiss, Yao...Kanki, Essex. The authors presented evidence for the first or earliest infection with HIV in a human. This paper reported on a patient from Kinshasa, Za…
GMN 9331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11513
1986 CLAVEL, François; GUÉTARD, D.; BRUN-VEZINET, François; ET AL
Isolation of a new human retrovirus from West African patients with AIDS.
HIV-2 was discovered essentially simultaneously by French and U.S. teams. This was the first publication by the French team. Order of authorship of the original publication was Clavel, Guettard, Brun-Vezinet. See thei…
GMN 10788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12984
1987 UCSF ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS; GLBT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The AIDS History Project.
https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…
GMN 10557 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12750
1987 BRANDT, Allen Morris (1953 – )
No magic bullet: A social history of venereal disease in the United States since 1880.
GMN 12487 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14720
1990 MURPHY, James S.
The condom industry in the United States.
GMN 13391 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15662
1994 CHANG, Yuan (1959 – ); MOORE, Patrick S. (1956 – ); CESARMAN, Ethel; PESSIN, Melissa S.; ET AL
Identification of herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma.
Dated December 16, 1994. Order of authorship in the original paper was Chang, Cesarman, Pessin,...Moore. The authors reported a new human herpesvirus associated with Kaposi's sarcoma, and gave it the descriptive name …
GMN 10880 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13076
1995 CHANG, Yuan (1959 – ); MOORE, Patrick S. (1956 – )
Detection of herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in Kaposi's sarcoma in patients with and those without HIV infection.
Dated May 4, 1995. Order of authorship in the original publication was Moore, Chang. That the virus causing Kaposi's sarcoma appeared in healthy as well as HIV patients suggested that this virus causes cancer only in …
GMN 10881 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13077
1996 BIGONI, B.; DOLCETTI, Riccardo; DE LELLIS, L.; ET AL
Human herpesvirus 8 Is present in the lymphoid system of healthy persons and can reactivate in the course of AIDS.
Dated June 22, 1995. Order of authorship in the original paper was Bigoni, Dolcetti, de Lellis....By this time Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) was also known as human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8). The authors wr…
GMN 10882 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13078
1996 DENG, HongKui; LIU, Rong; ELLMEIER, Wilfried; ET AL
Identification of a major co-receptor for primary isolates of HIV-1.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Deng, Liu, Ellmeier.... This paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Nature by: Tatjana Dragic, Virginia Litwin, Graham P. Allaway et al. "HIV-1 entry into …
GMN 11365 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13564
1996 HENDERSON, John; FRENCH, Roger Kenneth (1938 – 2002); ARRIZABALAGA, Jon
The great pox. The French disease in Renaissance Europe.
GMN 14050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16360
1997 BOS, Gerrit; IBN AL JAZZĀR, Ahmed Bin Jaafar Bin Brahim (Algizar) (895 – 979)
Ibn Al-Jazzār on sexual diseases and their treatment: A critical edition of Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-hādir. Translated and edited by Gerrit Bos.
GMN 8237 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10413
1997 LEWIS, Milton James; BAMBER, Scott; WAUGH, Michael
Sex, disease, and society: A comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh.
GMN 10030 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12219
1998 VENTER, John Craig (1946 – ); SMITH, Hamilton Othanel (1931 – ); FRASER, Claire M. (1955 – ); NORRIS, Steven J.; WEINSTOCK, George M. (1949 – ); ET AL
Complete genome sequence of treponema pallidum, the syphilis spirochete.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Fraser, Norris, Weinstock....Smith, Venter. Sequence of the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 11342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13540
1999 LYONS, Maryinez; LEWIS, Milton James; SETEL, Philip W.
Histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Philip W, Setel, Milton J. Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.
GMN 10031 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12220
2000 GREEN, Edward C. (1944 – )
Indigenous theories of contagious disease.
GMN 8504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10681
2000 REVERBY, Susan Mokotoff (1946 – )
Tuskegee's truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Edited by Susan M. Reverby.
GMN 12328 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14552
2004 SIENA, Kevin
Venereal disease, hospitals and the urban poor: London's "foul wards," 1600-1800.
GMN 13690 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15972
2004 DUTOUR, Olivier; PÁLFI, György; BERATO, Jacques; BRUN, Jean-Pierre
L’origine de la syphilis en Europe: Avant ou après 1493? / The origin of syphilis in Europe: Before or after 1493? Proceedings of an international colloquium, Toulon, France, 25–28 November 1993. Edited by Olivier Dutour, György Pálfi, Jacques Berato, and Jean-Pierre Brun.
The occasion of this meeting was the discovery in 1989 near Hyères (Var, France) of a human skeleton of the third or fourth century CE presenting lesions similar to those of syphilis. The volume contains fifty papers …
GMN 14086 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16397
2008 PARASCANDOLA, John (1941 – )
Sex, sin, and science: A history of syphilis in America.
GMN 12214 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14425
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
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
2012 ORIEL, J. David
The scars of Venus: A history of venereology.
GMN 12154 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14364
2015 MROCZKOWSKI, Tomasz F.
History, sex and syphilis: Famous syphilitics and their private lives.
GMN 8800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10978
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
2017 WENC, Christine
HIV / AIDS Collected by: National Library of Medicine, Christine Wenc, curator.
https://archive-it.org/collections/8400 HIV/AIDS "A collection of websites selected and archived by the National Library of Medicine on biomedical, clinical, cultural, and social aspects of HIV/AIDS in the early 21st …
GMN 9958 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12147
2017 PIETRZAK-FRANGER, Monika
Syphilis in Victorian literature and culture: Medicine, knowledge and the spectacle of invisibility.
GMN 13910 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16203
