Facets

1937 CE

#2430

Who gave the world syphilis? The Haitian myth.

2016 CE

#11409

Whole-genome characterization and strain comparison of VT2f-producing Escherichia coli causing hemolytic uremic syndrome.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Grande, Michelacci, Bondi.... Demonstration that a phage infecting E. coli conveys the genes into the E. coli that code for the production of the verotoxin that causes …

1995 CE

#11343

Whole-genome random sequencing and assembly of Haemophilus influenzae Rd.

First sequence of the complete genome of a free-living non-viral organism—Haemophilus influenzae—the bacterium that causes lower respiratory tract infections and meningitis in infants and young children. T…

1891 CE

#4359.1

Wiring of the vertebrae as a means of immobilization in fracture and Pott’s disease.

“In a case of fracture-dislocation of the cervical spine (C 6-7) he [Hadra] performed open reduction, twisting metal wires around the spinous processes to stabilize the injured sector” (Bick). This is the …

1891 CE

#4359.2

Wiring the spinal processes in Pott’s disease.

First spinal fusion.

2016 CE

#10942

Wolbachia blocks currently circulating Zika virus isololates in Brazilian Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Dutra, Rocha, Moreira. The authors infected lab populations of mosquitos with Wolbachia pipientis, a common parasitic microbe that infects a high proportion of insects. They …

2015 CE

#9859

Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.

"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…

1848 CE

#5454

Yellow fever contrasted with bilious fever – reasons for believing it a disease sui generis – its mode of propagation – remote cause – probable insect or animalcular origin.

Nott advanced the theory that yellow fever was caused by minute animalcula. Reproduced in part in R. H. Major, Classic descriptions of disease, 3rd ed., 1945, p. 122.

1938 CE

#5467.1

Yellow fever virus in jungle mosquitoes.

Haemagogus sp. shown to be vectors of yellow fever. With L. Whitman and M. Frania.

1855 CE

#5454.2

Yellow fever, considered in its historical, pathological, etiological, and therapeutical relations: including a sketch of the disease as it has occurred in Philadelphia from 1699 to 1854, with an examination of the connections between it and the fevers known under the same name in other parts of temperate, as well as in tropical, regions. 2 vols.

The most important 19th century American monograph on yellow fever. La Roche’s work sketched the disease in its appearances from 1699 to 1854 at Philadelphia, which saw some of the worst yellow fever epidemics, …

1911 CE

#9373

Yellow fever: A compilation of various publications. Results of the work of Maj. Walter Reed, Medical Corps, United States Army, and the Yellow Fever Commission. Presented by Mr. Owen.

A convenient compilation of the work of Reed and his associates, including the work of James Carroll published after the death of Walter Reed. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1931 CE

#5468

Yellow fever: an epidemiological and historical study of its place of origin. Edited by Laura Armistead Carter and Wade Hampton Frost.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2005 CE

#9386

Yellow Jack: How yellow fever ravaged American and Walter Reed discovered its deadly secrets.

1952 CE

#7864

Zika virus (I). Isolations and serological specificity.

First description of Zika virus, an arbovirus native to Africa. The authors named the virus after the Zika forest in Uganda, where they were searching for Yellow Fever. Instead they isolated a new virus in samples tak…

2017 CE

#14201

Zika virus protection by a single low-dose nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccination.

Prior to their development of the mRNA vaccine for Covid-19, Karikó and Weissman (Nobel Prize 2023) and colleagues used a novel mRNA vaccine, with base modifications created in their laboratory, to generate a p…

1952 CE

#10939

Zika virus. (II). Pathogenicity and physical properties.

Dick's second paper on the Zika virus, immediately following his first paper in the same volume of the same journal (see no. 7864). First statement that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is the vector of transmission of the …

1916 CE

#5388

Zur Aetiologie des Fleckfiebers.

Rickettsia prowazeki, cause of epidemic typhus, was first isolated by the Brazilian microbiologist Henrique da Rocha-Lima, who named it after Ricketts and Prowazek, both of whom died of the disease.

1896 CE

#5111

Zur aktiven Immunisierung des Menschen gegen Cholera.

Kolle introduced the killed cholera vaccine.

1915 CE

#5431

Zur Differentialdiagnose der Variola und der Varicellen. Die Erscheinungen an der variolierten Hornhaut des Kaninchens und ihre frühzeitige Erkennung.

Paul’s test for the diagnosis of smallpox.

1882 CE

#2331.1

Zur Färbung des Tuberkelbacillus.

Ziehl-Neelsen stain.

1912 CE

#4646

Zur Kenntnis der sogenannten diffusen Sklerose (über Encephalitis periaxialis diffusa).

“Schilder’s disease” – encephalitis periaxialis diffusa.

1919 CE

#2408

Zur Kritik des serologischen Luesnachweises mittels Ausflockung.

Sachs–Georgi diagnostic reaction.

1885 CE

#5238.1

Zur Parasitologie des Blutes.

Discovery of malaria parasites in birds. See also Ann. Inst. Pasteur, 1890, 4, 427-31.

1886 CE

#5476

Zur Pathologie und Therapie einer eigenthümlichen endemischen Krankheitsform.

This is generally regarded as the first description of pappataci fever.

1906 CE

#2400

Zur Technik der Spirochaetenuntersuchung.

Dark field method of diagnosis for presence of T. pallidum.

1932 CE

#5257

Zur Weiterentwicklung synthetisch dargestellter Malariamittel. I. Ueber die chemotherapeutische Wirkung des Atebrin.

Introduction of atebrin (mepacrine, quinacrine).

1916 CE

#5390

Zurserologischen Diagnose des Fleckfiebers.

Weil-Felix reaction for the diagnosis of typhus. See also the later paper in the same journal, 1916, 29, 974-78.

1672 CE

#5121

Λοιμόλόγια sive pestis nuperae apud populum Londinensem grassantis narratio historica.

Best medical record of the Great Plague of 1665. Hodges was physician to the City of London and the medical hero of the great epidemic. English translation by John Quincy, 1720: Loimologia, or, An historical account o…

1856 CE

#22

Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.

Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…