WOLBACH, Simeon Burt (1880 – 1954)

1880 – 1954

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

1919 CE

#5391

Studies on Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

WOLBACH, Simeon Burt (1880 – 1954)

In his important aetiological and pathological studies of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Wolbach mentioned the causal agent Dermacentroxenus rickettsi.

Plagues & Epidemics

1922 CE

#5393

The etiology and pathology of typhus. Being the main report of the Typhus Research Commission of the League of Red Cross Societies to Poland.

TODD, John Lancelot (1876 – 1949) WOLBACH, Simeon Burt (1880 – 1954) PALFREY, Francis Winslow (1876 – 1953)

The carefully controlled experiments of Wolbach, Todd, and Palfrey eliminated all doubt that R. prowazeki was the causal agent in typhus. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

Microbiology & Virology

1924 CE

#10943

Studies on Rickettsia-like micro-organisms in insects.

WOLBACH, Simeon Burt (1880 – 1954) HERTIG, Marshall (1893 – 1978)

Hertig and Wolbach first described the parasitic microbe Wolbachia in the common house mosquito in 1924. In 1936 Hertig formally described the species as Wolbachia pipientis. Since then the genus Wolbachia has become …