Facets

1994 CE

#10901

Human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis in the Upper Midwest United States. A new species emerging?

Order of authorship in the original paper: Bakken, Dumler, Chen. First description of the Ehrlichia ewingii species of Ehrlichiosis (HGE) from a patient in Duluth, Minnesota, though the infectious agent was not yet na…

1996 CE

#10882

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…

1987 CE

#10899

Human infection with Ehrlichia canis, a leukocytic rickettsia.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Maeda, Markowitz, Hawley. First description of Ehrlichiosis in humans, description of the organism, and successful drug treatment with doxycycline. The pathogen was lat…

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…

1910 CE

#13217

Hygiene and morality: A manual for nurses and others, giving an outline of the medical, social, and legal aspects of the venereal diseases.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1847 CE

#5443

Iagttagelser, anstillede under Maeslinge-Epidemien paa Faerøerne i Aaret 1846.

When only 26 years of age, Panum was sent by the Danish Government to investigate the epidemic of measles then raging in the Faroe Islands. His report on the subject was a valuable contribution to medical literature. …

1997 CE

#8237

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.

1996 CE

#11365

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 …

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.)

1994 CE

#10880

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 …

1872 CE

#4063

Idiopathisches multiples Pigmentsarkom der Haut.

First description of “Kaposi’s sarcoma” – multiple idiopathic hemorrhagic sarcoma. English translation in CA, 1982, 32, 342-47.

2020 CE

#12100

IHME COVID-19 health service utilization forecasting team. Forecasting COVID-19 impact on hospital bed-days, ICU-days, ventilator days and deaths by US state in the next 4 months.

This paper was published online on March 26, 2020 and updated periodically. When I added it to this database on April 2, 2020 it had been updated on March 31, 2020. At that time the paper was available from healthdata…

1889 CE

#5205

Il virus dell’ ulcera venerea.

Announcement of the discovery of Haemophilus ducreyi (Ducrey’s bacillus), causal organism in chancroid.

1949 CE

#2419

Immobilization of Treponema pallidum in vitro by antibody produced in syphilitic infection.

Nelson’s treponemal immobilization test.

1890 CE

#5060.1

Immunisirungsversuche bei Diphtherie.

Artificial immunity to diphtheria produced in guinea-pigs by injection of attenuated cultures of the bacillus. Fraenkel's account appeared one day before the paper of Behring and Kitasato. Behring, Die Geschichte der …

1946 CE

#5544.2

Immunity in mumps. VI. Experiments on the vaccination of human beings with formolized mumps virus.

With E. P. Maris, and L. W. Kane.

1955 CE

#4672.3

Immunization of chimpanzees and human beings with avirulent strains of poliomyelitis virus.

Sabin reported the successful immunization of chimpanzees by oral and I.M. route using the Brunhilde, Mahoney and Leon strains of polio virus. On p. 1055 he reported the experimental results on humans given a "single …

1931 CE

#4670.5

Immunological differences between strains of poliomyelitis virus.

1913 CE

#11249

Important discovery in tropical medicine: Metamorphosis of Filaria Loa.

Leiper discovered diurnal periodicity in Filaria Loa, as the worm embryos are found in the blood only during day, as an adaptation to the day-biting habits of their insect vector, a biting fly of the genus Chrysopa. T…

1858 CE

#12482

Impressions of Western Africa. With remarks on the diseases of the climate and a report on the peculiarities of trade up the rivers in the Bight of Biafra.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1967 CE

#12716

In Japanese: [Acute febrile mucocutaneous syndrome with lymphoid involvement with specific desquamation of the fingers and toes in children.]

Kawasaki first reported this disease in 1961 in a four-year-old child with a rash and fever at the Red Cross Hospital in Tokyo; by the time he wrote this paper he had seen 50 cases. The mysterious novel illness was ev…

2013 CE

#8100

In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.

1948 CE

#2578.6

In vitro method for testing the toxin-producing capacity of diphtheria bacteria.

Agar gel immunodiffusion.

1874 CE

#2436

Indberetning til det Norske mediciniske Selskab i Christiania om en med understottelse af selskabet foretaghen reise for at anstille undersogelser angaende spedalskhedens arsager, tidels udforte sammen med forstander Hartwig.

Hansen discovered the leprosy bacillus on 28 February 1873. He had been stimulated by the previous work of Danielssen and Boeck, and his own demonstration of the leprosy bacillus is one of the earliest observations of…

1892 CE–1982 CE

#355

Index-catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology.

An index to the world's literature on parasites and parasitisms of man, of domestic animals, and of wild animals whose parasites may be transmitted to man and domestic animals. It also contains references to fur-beari…

1944 CE–1948 CE

#2447

Indice bibliográfico de lepra, 1560-1943. 3 vols.

Supplements 1-5, 1952-62.

2000 CE

#8504

Indigenous theories of contagious disease.

1914 CE

#5175

Infection of man with Bacterium tularense

Wherry and Lamb were first to isolate P. tularensis from lesions in man.

1995 CE

#10889

Infection with a Babesia-like organism in Northern California.

Order of authorship in the original paper was Persing, Herwaldt, Glaser. First report of a Basisa duncani infection in humans (4 patients). The authors designated the infection as Babesia (WA1) strain transmitted by I…

1896 CE

#5035

Infections paratyphoïdiques.

Isolation of Salmonella paratyphi B. First use of the term “paratyphoid fever”.

2016 CE

#14068

Influenza encyclopedia: The American influenza epidemic of 1918 - 1919: A digital encyclopedia. Second edition.

ABOUT "Historians, journalists, and the public at large have long been interested in the 1918 “Spanish flu” epidemic, a dramatic chapter in American life that has spawned an impressive body of books, artic…

1936 CE

#5497

Influenza infection of man from the ferret.

First record of successful passage of influenza from animal to man. The ferret had previously been infected with a virus from a case of influenza.

1896 CE

#5491

Influenza und Dengue.

Forms Bd. IV, Teil 1 of Nothnagel’s Specielle Pathologie und Therapie.

1942 CE

#12108

Influenza: A survey of the last fifty years in the light of modern work on the virus of epidemic influenza.

1921 CE

#11920

Influenza: An epidemiological study. The American Journal of Hygiene. Monographic Series No. 1.

A comprehensive survey written two years after the pandemic, including historical information back to 1893. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1977 CE

#5500.2

Influenza: The last great plague.

1933 CE–1934 CE

#5495

Influenza. 2 vols.

Annals of the Pickett Thomson Research Lab., Monograph 16. "In two massive volumes Thomson and Thomson reviewed the literature on influenza up to 1934" (Spink).

1850 CE

#5163

Inoculation du sang de rate.

Rayer inoculated sheep with blood of other sheep dead of anthrax. Microscopically he saw the anthrax bacillus in the blood of the inoculated sheep. Rayer was associated with Davaine, who later, in Bull. Acad. M&eacute…

1722 CE

#5412

Inoculation of the smallpox as practised in Boston.

1883 CE

#5237

Insects and disease - mosquitoes and malaria.

The first reasoned argument in support of the belief of transmission of malaria by mosquitoes. King was an English-born American physician who witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April, 1865, and as a by…

1930 CE

#5071

Insoluble precipitates in diphtheria and tetanus immunization.

Alum-precipitated toxoid for active immunization.

1802 CE

#13356

Instruction des Officiers de Santé en Chef de l'Armée sur les maladies internes et externes des troupes à Sainte-Domingue, et sur leur traitement.

The date of this undated work has been inferred. The 40-page pamphlet issued during the early stages of the French expedition to the island, provided instructions by the chief medical officers of the army for medical …

1905 CE

#5255

Intracorpuscular conjugation in the malarial plasmodia and its significance.

Demonstration of the existence of malarial carriers.

1908 CE

#2341

Intradermo-réaction de la tuberculine.

Mantoux’s intradermal tuberculin skin test.

1885 CE

#5057

Intubation of the larynx.

O’Dwyer perfected the operation of laryngeal intubation in croup.

1893 CE

#5529

Investigations into the nature, causation and prevention of Texas or Southern cattle fever.

U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry, Bulletin No. 1. Discovery of the parasite of Texas cattle fever, Pyrosoma bigeminum, and proof that its transmission is due to the cattle tick, Boöphilus bovis. This was the first …

2002 CE

#13567

Invisible invaders: Smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880.

"An epidemic of smallpox among Aboriginal people around the infant colony of Sydney in 1789 puzzled the British, for there had been no cases on the ships of the First Fleet. Where, then, did the epidemic come from? "A…

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…

1999 CE

#10954

Isolation of West Nile virus from mosquitoes, crows, and a Cooper's hawk in Connecticut.

First definite identification of the West Nile virus in the Western hemisphere. This paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by Lanciott, R.S., Roehrig, J.T., Deubet, V. et al, "Origin of the West …