Facets

1863 CE

#548.1

Ueber Eiter- und Bindegewebskörperchen.

Recklinghausen described granular cells in the frog mesentery, later named “mast cells” by Ehrlich (No. 553.1).

1892 CE

#2507

Ueber Epidemieen unter den im hygienischen Institute zu Greifswald gehaltenen Mäusen und über die Bekämpfung der Feldmausplage.

Isolation of Salm. typhi-murium.

1882 CE

#2496

Ueber Erysipel.

Discovery of Strep pyogenes, infectious agent of scarlet fever and other streptococcal illnesses. Fehleisen cultured it from perierysipelas lesions on humans. English translation, 1886.

1852 CE

#116

Ueber extracelluläre Entstehung thierischer Zellen und über die Vermehrung derselben durch Theilung.

Remak was the first to point out that growth of new tissues was accomplished by the division of pre-existing cells.

1885 CE

#2502

Ueber Fäulnissbacterien.

Isolation of Proteus vulgaris.

1884 CE

#5148

Ueber infectiösen Tetanus.

The discovery of the tetanus bacillus, Clostridum tetani, is attributed to Nicolaier; he was, however, unable to isolate the organism in pure culture.

1861 CE

#117

Ueber Muskelkörperchen und das, was man eine Zelle zu nennen habe.

Schultze showed the cell to be a clump of nucleated protoplasm, stating that each muscle fibre or primitive muscle bundle was developed from a single myoblast by successive divisions of its cell or nucleus. His work s…

1880 CE

#5346.1

Ueber parasitäre Hämoptoë (Gregarinosis pulmonum).

Description of the ova of Paragonimus (which Baelz named Gregarina pulmonalis) and its relationship to endemic hemoptysis. Translation in Kean (No. 2268.1), p. 602.

1895 CE

#5529.1

Ueber parasitäre Zelleinschlüsse und ihre Züchtung.

“Busse–Buschke disease” –blastomycosis of the skin due to Cryptococcus neoformans. See also No. 5529.2. Busse first described it in Zbl. Bakt., 1894, 16, 175-80.

1891 CE

#5514

Ueber Reincultur des Actinomyces und seine Uebertragbarkeit auf Thiere.

Isolation of Actinomyces bovis, later called Actinomyces israelii.

1906 CE

#2824

Ueber Spirochaeta pallida in der Aortenwand bei Hellerscher Aortitis.

Treponema pallidum first discovered in the diseased aorta.

1891 CE

#2506.1

Ueber Wasserfiltration durch Filter aus gebrannter Infusorienerde.

Berkefeld kieselguhr filter.

1909 CE

#4669

Uebertragung der Poliomyelitis acuta auf Affen.

Landsteiner and Popper were the first to isolate poliovirus and to transmit poliomyelitis to monkeys.

1908 CE

#5532.1

Uma mycose pseudococcidica localisada na bocca e observada no Brazil. Contribuiçao ao conhocimento das hyphoblastomycoses americanas.

South American blastomycosis.

1881 CE

#5236

Un nouveau parasite trouvé dans le sang plusieurs malades atteints de fièvre palustre.

Laveran first saw the malaria parasite on 20 October 1880; he at once recognized its significance. He named it Oscillaria malariae. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1). Laveran also published a monograph on the d…

1900 CE

#4131.1

Un nuevo esporozoario parásito del hombre. Dos casos encontrados en pólipos nasales: Tesis presentada para optar al grado de doctor en medicina.

Rhinosporidiosis first described. Digital facsimile from bibliomedicinadigital.fmed.uba.ar at this link.

1892 CE

#5528.1

Un nuovo caso de micosis fungoides con psorospermias.

As an intern in Buenos Aires, Posadas described an Argentine soldier who had a dermatological problem since 1889. Posadas had seen the patient while a medical student in 1891, and skin biopsies revealed organisms rese…

1908 CE

#5534.1

Un nuovo protozoa parassito de’ conigli incontrato nelle lesioni anatomiche d’una malattia che ricorda in molti punti il kala azar dell’uomo.

Splendore discovered Toxoplasma in a rabbit; it was named T. cuniculi.

1944 CE

#8470

Une maladie Égyptienne: l'hématurie parasitaire.

1983 CE

#8475

Unidentified curved bacilli on gastric epithelium in active chronic gastritis.

In 2005 Marshall and Warren shared the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease." See also their follow-up pape…

1977 CE

#11245

Unidentified gram-negative rod infection: A new disease of man.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Butler, Weaver, Ramani....Bobo....First description of a newly discovered bacterium associated with dog bites, affecting in this case alcoholic patients or patients predispos…

1872 CE

#2483

Untersuchungen über Bacterien.

Cohn’s morphological classification of bacteria. He founded the Beiträge.

1884 CE

#3481

Untersuchungen über Cholera nostras.

Finkler and Prior isolated Vibrio proteus from stools in a case of acute gastro-enteritis.

1932 CE

#5465.1

Untersuchungen über das Verhalten des Gelbfiebervirus in der Gewebekultur. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Kultivierbarkeit.

Yellow fever virus grown in tissue culture.

1878 CE

#2536

Untersuchungen über die Aetiologie der Wundinfectionskrankheiten.

Koch’s epochal work on the etiology of traumatic infectious disease established his reputation. He inoculated animals with material from various sources and produced six types of infection, each due to microorga…

1890 CE

#5513

Untersuchungen über die Aktinomykose des Menschen.

Isolation of Actinomyces graminis from human actinomycosis, and staining method for Actinomyces.

1921 CE

#2521.1

Untersuchungen über die Ätiologie der Krankheiten der Herpesgruppe (Herpes zoster, Herpes genitalis, Herpes febrilis).

Lipschütz’s account of herpes virus diseases included identification of the characteristic inclusion bodies (“Zosterkörperchen”).

1884 CE

#5056

Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Mikroorganismen für die Entstehung der Diphtherie beim Menschen, bei der Taube und beim Kalbe.

Loeffler succeeded in cultivating C. diphtheriae, the diphtheria bacillus. He reproduced the characteristic membrane by swabbing the mucous membranes of various animals with pure cultures of the bacillus. In this pape…

1874 CE

#12064

Untersuchungen über die Vegetationsformen von Coccobacteria septica und den Antheil, Welchen sie an der Enstehung und Verbreitung der accidentellen Wundkrankheiten Haben. Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Kritik der verscheidenen Methoden antiseptischer Wundbehandlung.

Billroth provided the first account of streptocci wound infection, calling the bacteria Coccobacteria septica. When Billroth introduced antisepic techniques in his surgical practice the number of surgical patients wit…

1860 CE

#5343

Untersuchungen über Trichina spiralis.

Leuckart provided an articulate and detailed description of Trichinella spiralis.

1888 CE

#5033

Untersuchungen über Typhus abdominalis.

Salmonella typhi first demonstrated in the gall-bladder in cases of typhoid.

1906 CE

#2518.1

Upon the bacteriology of the summer diarrhoea of infants.

Morgan’s bacillus, Proteus morgani.

2011 CE

#12440

Using a pan-viral microarray assay (Virochip) to screen clinical samples for viral pathogens.

Direct link to the Journal of Visualized Experiments, JOVE.com: https://www.jove.com/video/2536/using-pan-viral-microarray-assay-virochip-to-screen-clinical-samples Using a Pan-Viral Microarray Assay (Virochip) to Scr…

1932 CE

#5465

Vaccination against yellow fever with immune serum and virus fixed for mice.

These workers devised an immune serum for prophylactic inoculation against yellow fever. With S. F. Kitchen and W. D. M. Lloyd.

1969 CE–1972 CE

#6841

Vaccine against viral hepatitis and process. Serial No. 864,788 filed 10 /8 /[19]69. Patent 3636191 issued 1/ 18/ [19]72.

First description of the hepatitis B vaccine, the first cancer vaccine, US patent 3636191A. Millman and Blumberg discovered that the blood of individuals carrying the hepatitis B virus contained particles of the outsi…

1877 CE

#2488

Verfahrungen zur Untersuchung, zum Conserviren und Photographiren der Bacterien.

Koch greatly improved staining methods; he laid the foundations of the technical procedures employed in bacteriology today. In the above paper he described his method of slide preparation, making films of bacteria on …

1817 CE

#2468

Vergiftung durch verdorbene Würste.

Botulism first described. Kerner published an expanded study as Neue Beobachtungen über die in Würtemberg so häufig vorfallenden tödtlichen Vergiftung durch den Genuss geräuchter Würstem,…

1773 CE–1774 CE

#11779

Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthecorum, et testaceorum non marinorum, succincta historia. 2 vols.

In this work Müller arranged the Infusoria into genera and species for the first time. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1939 CE

#4660.1

Vesennij (vesenne-letnij) endemiceskij klescevoj encefalit. [Vernal (verno-aestival) endemic tick-borne encephalitis.]

Isolation of the virus of spring–summer (Russian Far East) encephalitis.

1840 CE

#5322

Violent symptoms from the bite of a rat.

First report of rat-bite fever to appear in a medical journal.

1970 CE

#2660.22

Viral RNA-dependent DNA polymerase: RNA-dependent DNA polymerase in virions of RNA tumour viruses.

In 1970 Baltimore and Temin discovered that certain viruses that have their genes in the form of RNA can copy the RNA "backward" into DNA in infected cells. The enyzme, reverse transcriptase, enables the manufacture o…

1940 CE

#4661

Virus filtrant pathogène pour l’homme et les animaux de laboratoire, et à affinité meningée et pulmonaire.

“Durand’s disease” – D virus infection. Durand isolated the virus from his own blood. See also the paper by G. M. Findlay, Trans. roy. Soc. trop. Med., 1942, 35, 303-18.

1957 CE

#2578.22

Virus interference. I. The interferon.

Discovery of interferon type I, a protein that interferes with viral replication. "While working together at the NIMR, Lindenmann and Isaacs noticed that if they killed viruses using heat and applied the dead viruses …

1964 CE

#2660.18

Virus particles in cultured lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s lymphoma.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Epstein, Achong, Barr. Presence of herpes-like virus particles in Burkitt’s tumor cells reported. The Epstein-Barr virus was the first human cancer-causing virus …

1960 CE

#2660.13

Virus-cell interaction with a tumour-producing virus.

Polyomavirus (papovavirus) shown to be capable of transforming cells in culture. Full text from PubMedCentral at this link.

1970 CE

#12305

Virus-like particles in serum of patients with Australia-antigen-associated hepatitis.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Dane, Cameron, Briggs.) The authors showed that the "Australian antigen" was a virus causing hepatitis B. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretati…

1977 CE

#8672

Virus: A history of the concept

2016 CE

#7804

Virus: An illustrated guide to 101 incredible microbes.

Includes historical data, spectacular color photomicrographs, drawings, and geographical range maps for 101 viruses

2014 CE

#12043

Viruses and man: A history of interactions.

1998 CE

#7960

Viruses, plagues & history: Past, present, and future.

Revised and updated edition, 2010.