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70 entries match Microbiology & Virology [C01.748] · Women & Gender [K01.700.500]
1983 CE
#6996
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 …
2020 CE
#11876
A bacteriophage nucleus like compartment shields DNA from CRISPR nucleases.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mendoza, Nieweglowska, Govindarajan. The authors showed that the large phage that specifically infects a Pseudomonas bacterium segregates its DNA, which the phage CRISP…
2012 CE
#10915
A new phlebovirus associated with severe febrile illness in Missouri.
Order of authorship in the original paper: McMullan, Folk, Kelly. Discovery of a new Phlebovirus, which the authors name the "Heartland virus" and with high probability that Amblyoma is the tick vector. Digital facsim…
1984 CE
#11059
A new type of retrovirus isolated from patients presenting with lymphadenopathy and acquired immune deficiency syndrome: Structural and antigenic relatedness with equine infectious anemia virus.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Montagnier, Dauguet,... Barré-Sinoussi. In this paper Montagnier and colleagues showed that, contrary to the views of Gallo and his group, LAV (Lymphadenopathy A…
2013 CE
#11045
A novel prion disease associated with diarrhea and autonomic neuropathy.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Mead, Gandhi, Beck, Collinge. Collinge was the main author. Digital facsimile from nejm.org at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)
1935 CE
#2576.3
A protective action of neurotropic against viscerotropic yellow fever virus in Macacus rhesus.
One of the first examples of an animal virus interference phenomenon was demonstrated by Hoskins.
2019 CE
#11374
A randomized, controlled trial of Ebola virus disease therapeutics.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mulangu, Dodd, Davey.... One synthetic drug (Remdesivir, an antiviral) and 3 biologicals were used in this trial. The 3 biologicals were: REGN-EB3, a triple monoclonal …
1933 CE
#2524.2
A serological differentiation of human and other groups of hemolytic streptococci.
Lancefield determined the principal pathogenic strains of hemolytic streptococci and subdivided them into types. All important strains pathogenic to humans fall into Lancefield’s Group A.
1924 CE
#5082
A skin test for susceptibility to scarlet fever.
The “Dick test” for the determination of individual susceptibility to scarlet fever.
1977 CE
#11043
An amazing sequence arrangement at the 5' ends of adenovirus 2 messenger RNA.
Discovery of introns. In 1993 Roberts shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip A. Sharp "for their discoveries of split genes." It was frequently suggested that Chow deserved a share of that prize…
1948 CE
#5545
An unidentified, filterable agent isolated from the feces of children with paralysis.
Isolation of the Coxsackie virus from the stool of a patient residing in Coxsackie, New York.
2014 CE
#11346
Cancer virus: The story of Epstein-Barr virus.
2005 CE
#11335
Characterization of the reconstructed 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic virus.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Tumpey, Basler, Aguilar... Taubenberger. Reconstruction of the genome of the 1918 Spanish Influenza virus from frozen tissue samples from a mass grave of victims of the…
2020 CE
#11877
Clades of huge phages from across Earth's ecosystems.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Al-Shayeb, Sachdeva, Chen.... Doudna. Open access, available from nature.com at this link. This paper was a collaboration of about 50 scientists of diverse regions and …
1998 CE
#11342
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.)
1964 CE
#2660.17
Cultivation in vitro of human lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s malignant lymphoma.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Epstein, Barr. Discovery of the Epstein-Barr virus, a human herpes virus causing infectious mononucleosis, and implicated in Burkitt’s lymphoma and other forms of…
1928 CE
#5434.1
Cultivation of vaccinia virus without tissue culture.
Introduction of “Maitland’s medium”.
2007 CE
#11348
Deadly companions: How microbes shaped our history.
1976 CE
#11104
Deoxyribonucleic acid polymerase from the extreme thermophile Thermus aquaticus.
The authors showed that the heat resistant bacteria Thermus aquaticus discovered by Thomas Brock contained a vital polymerase enzyme that had evolved in this bacteria to allow it to metabolize and survive in exception…
1987 CE
#11246
DF-2 bacteremia following cat bites. Report of two cases.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Carpenter, Heppner, Gnann. Report of two cases of infection from cat bites by the bacterium then identified by the CDC as DF-2 (later called Capnocytophaga canimorsus) in non…
1967 CE
#12834
Does the agent of scrapie replicate without nucleic acids?
This paper, which predated Griffith's' paper (No. 12833), demonstrated that the scrapie agent replicates without nucleic acids. Alper and colleagues irradiated scrapie infected mouse brain extracts with lethal ultravi…
1998 CE
#10900
Ehrlichia chaffeensis in Missouri ticks.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Roland, Everett, Cyr. Using PCR, the authors demonstrated that the tick Amblyoma americanum (the Lone Star Tick) was the insect vector of Ehrlichia chaffeensis. Digital facsi…
2011 CE
#10904
Emergence of a new pathogenic Ehrlichia species, Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Pritt, Sloan, Johnson. Discovery of a new species of Ehrlichia, initially denoted as "Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009," that was not related to E. chaffeensiis or E. ewin…
2014 CE
#10928
Emergence of Zaire Ebola virus disease in Guinea.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Baize, Pannetier, Oestereich. The authors used PCR, viral sequencing, and phylogenetic analysis to track down the index case, a two-year-old child in Meliandou village, Gu&ea…
1937 CE
#5398
Experimental studies on the virus of “Q” fever.
Discovery of Rickettsia burneti, causal agent in Q fever.
2015 CE
#11848
Gene-edited pigs are protected from porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Whitworth, Rowland, Ewen, ... Prather. Using the CRISPR Cas molecular gene-editing tool, Prather and colleagues edited the gene that codes for the CD163 protein in adul…
2007 CE
#11338
Genome sequence of Aedes aegypti, a major arbovirus vector.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Nene, Wortman, Lawson.... Sequence of the genome of the mosquito that transmits Zika, Yellow fever, Dengue, Chikungunya, etc. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference a…
2002 CE
#11336
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…
2015 CE
#10905
Human infection with Ehrlichia muris-like pathogen, United States, 2007-2013.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Johnson, Schiffman, Davis, Pritt. The authors, found some commonality in this pathogen, originally designated generally as "Wisconsin and Minnesota, 2009" with the mous…
1987 CE
#11192
Human parvovirus infection in pregnancy and hydrops fetalis.
Demonstration of the devastating effect of human parvovirus B19 on the human fetus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
1983 CE
#11191
Human parvovirus, the cause of erythema infectiosum (Fifth disease)?
This single page document was published as a Letter to the Editor of The Lancet. Order of authorship of the letter: Anderson, Jones, Fisher-Hoch.... Identification of human parvovirus as the cause of "Fifth disease". …
2016 CE
#10922
Identification of a novel pathogenic Borrelia species causing Lyme borreliosis with unusually high spirochaetemia: A descriptive study.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Pritt, Mead, Johnson. Discovery of Lyme Borreliosis or Borrelia mayonii, a new variant of B. burgdorferi. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
1931 CE
#4670.5
Immunological differences between strains of poliomyelitis virus.
1952 CE
#256
Independent functions of viral protein and nucleic acid in growth of bacteriophage.
DNA shown to be the carrier of genetic information in virus reproduction. In 1969 Hershey shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with S. E. Luria and M. Delbrück for "for their discoveries concerning th…
1977 CE
#10923
Isolation and partial characterization of a new virus causing acute haemorrhagic fever in Zaire.
The first of three papers published in Lancet back to back describing the discovery of Ebola Virus Disease. In this paper the authors described isolation of the virus, imaged it with an electron microscope, and named …
1926 CE
#12386
Isolation of a crystalline protein with tuberculin activity.
Siebert identified the active agent in tuberculin as a protein.
1986 CE
#10788
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…
2019 CE
#10913
Kaposi sarcoma in mantled guereza.
Order of authorship in original publication: Grewer, Bleyer, Matz-Rensing. Further work on the CBGHV1 (Colobine gammherpesvirus 1) which causes a pathology in the Colobus monkey very similar to that seen humans. (Than…
1995 CE
#10914
Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-related body-cavity-based lymphomas.
Chang, Moore and colleagues showed that the virus causing Kaposi's Sarcoma also causes body cavity lymphomas and lymphomatous effusions in humans. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
1940 CE
#5259
Klinische und parasitologische Befunde und chemotherapeutische Ergebnisse bei der Hühnermalaria.
Discovery of the developmental forms of P. gallinaceum in the incubation period.
2005 CE
#11193
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…
2015 CE
#10917
Novel thogotovirus associated with febrile illness and death, United States, 2014.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Kosoy, Lambert, Hawkinson, Staples. Discovery of a new tick-borne Thogotovirus named by the authors "Bourbon virus" after Bourbon County, Kansas. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for th…
1975 CE
#11190
Parvovirus-like particles in human sera. Preliminary communication.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Cossart, Field, Cant. First description of Parvovirus B19, the first human parvovirus discovered. It is among the smallest DNA viruses and is most often known for causing dis…
1962 CE
#10920
Powassan virus: Field investigations in Northern Ontario, 1959-1961.
The authors isolated a virus from the brain of a child who died of encephalitis in Powassan, Ontario, and named it the Powassan virus. They posited a tick vector and possible rodent natural hosts. (Thanks to Juan Weis…
1955 CE
#5546.3
Propagation and primary isolation of mumps virus in tissue culture.
1956 CE
#2527.2
Propagation in tissue culture of a cytopathogenic virus from human salivary gland virus (SGV) disease.
Isolation of cytomegalovirus
1936 CE
#5484.2
Propagation of rabies virus in tissue culture and the successful use of culture virus as antirabic vaccine.
Webster and Clow succeeded in growing rabies virus in tissue culture.
2017 CE
#10906
Proposal to reclassify Ehrlichia muris as Ehrlichia muris subsp. muris subsp. nov. and description of Ehrlichia muris subsp. eauclairensis subsp. nov., a newly recognized tick borne pathogen of humans.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Pritt, Allderdice, Sloan. By extremely complex genotyping methods and fine electron microscopic analysis of the organism, the authors showed that the infectious agent i…
1949 CE
#5515
Pure granulomatous nocardiosis: a new fungus disease distinguished by intracellular parasitism. A description of a new disease in man due to a hitherto undescribed organism, Nocardia intracellularis, n.sp., including a study of the biological and pathogenic properties of this species.
Nocardiosis described.
1938 CE
#2576.7
Recherches sur le phénomène de Twort-d’Hérelle (bactériophage ou autolyse hérédo-contagieuse).
The Wollmans made important contributions to the knowledge on bacteriophage and lysogeny.