ROSS, Sir Ronald (1857 – 1932)
1857 – 1932
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1897 CE
#5247
On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial blood.
Ross proved that the mosquito was responsible for the transmission of malaria. On 20 August 1897, he found Laveran’s Plasmodium in the stomach of the Anopheles mosquito after it had fed on the blood of malaria p…
1898 CE
#5251
The rôle of the mosquito in the evolution of the malarial parasite.
Ross provided the last link in the chain demonstrating the complete life-cycle of the parasite of bird malaria. He found that mosquitoes which had fed on malaria-infected birds, and which had allowed the parasites to …
1902 CE
#9260
Mosquito brigades and how to organise them.
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