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1821 CE

#5336.4

Description of the calcified cysts of trichinosis in human muscle. (A brief notice with no title).

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 …

1896 CE

#11380

L'action bactericide des eaux de la Jumna et du Gange sur le vibrion du cholera.

Hankin described the antibacterial activity of a then-unknown source in the Ganges and Jumna Rivers in India. He noted that "It is seen that the unboiled water of the Ganges kills the cholera germ in less than 3 hours…

1925 CE

#12035

Pansporella perplexa. Réflexions sur la biologie et la phylogénie des protozoaires.

Chatton was the first to characterize the distinction between the eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems of cellular organization. See Jan Sapp, "The prokaryote-Eukaryote dichtomy: meanings and mythology," Microbiol. Mol.…

1947 CE

#1937

“Aerosporin”, an antibiotic produced by Bacillus aerosporus Greer.

Discovery of aerosporin (polymyxin). With A. M. Brown and G. Brownlee.

1937 CE

#5397

“Q” fever, a new fever entity: clinical features and laboratory investigation.

First account of “Q” (query) fever. See also No. 5398.

1965 CE

#3666.4

A “new” antigen in leukemia sera.

(Order of authorship in the original publication: Blumberg, Alter, Visnich.) Discovery of Australia antigen, hepatitis B antigen, Aa, later called HBsAg. Blumberg received half of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in Biolo…

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…

1960 CE

#11219

A bibliography of internal medicine: Selected diseases.

Literature on "selected diseases" presented in chronological order, beginning with auricular fibrillation and ending with trichinosis, emphasizing cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

1913 CE

#3192.1

A biological classification of pneumococci by means of immunity reactions.

Dochez and Gillespie differentiated four types of pneumococci.

1893 CE

#5360

A case of ankylostomiasis.

First recognition of ankylostomiasis in America. It had previously been reported and described under various names.

1896 CE

#5530.1

A case of blastomycetic dermatitis in man.

Gilchrist’s description of blastomycosis (“Gilchrist’s disease”, “Busse-Buschke disease”, Nos. 5529.1 and 5529.2), is an important contribution to the knowledge of the infectious gr…

2016 CE

#13505

A century of parasitology: Discoveries, ideas and lessons learned by scientists who published in The Journal of Parasitology, 1914-2014. Edited by John Janovy, Jr. and Gerald W. Esch.

1898 CE

#2335

A comparative study of bovine tubercle bacilli and of human bacilli from sputum.

First clear differentiation between the bovine and human types of tubercle bacillus.

1913 CE

#4805

A demonstration of Treponema pallidum in the brain in cases of general paralysis.

A pure culture of Trep. pallidum was obtained from a case of dementia paralytica.

1926 CE

#2522.1

A disease of rabbits characterised by a large mononuclear leucocytosis, caused by a hitherto undescribed bacillus acterium monocytogenes (n. sp.).

Isolation of Listeria monocytogenes. With R. A. Webb and M. B. R. Swann.

1881 CE

#3173

A fatal form of septicaemia in the rabbit, produced by the subcutaneous injection of human saliva.

In the same year as Pasteur, and independently, Sternberg discovered the pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) demonstrating its carriage in the healthy human mouth.

1917 CE

#5159.1

A form of pseudo-tuberculosis (melioidosis).

Stanton identified the bacillus of melioidosis and reproduced the disease in animals by feeding and inoculation of cultures.

1873 CE

#2484

A further contribution to the natural history of bacteria and the germ theory of fermentative changes.

Isolation of Bacterium lactis, the specific micro-organism responsible for the lactic acid fermentation of milk.

1892 CE

#2508

A gas-producing bacillus (Bacillus aërogenes capsulatus nov. spec.) capable of rapid development in the blood-vessels after death.

Discovery of the gas gangrene bacillus (Welch bacillus) Cl. perfringens. Reprinted in Medical Classics, 1941, 5, 852-85.

1958 CE

#2581.1

A guide to the history of bacteriology.

A selective annotated bibliography.

1991 CE

#9851

A history of experimental virology. Translated by Elvira Reckendorf.

1990 CE

#13514

A history of human helminthology.

1970 CE

#2581.8

A history of medical bacteriology and immunology.

1978 CE

#567.2

A history of microtechnique: The evolution of the microtome and the development of tissue preparation.

1965 CE

#2463.1

A history of parasitology.

1971 CE

#4672.5

A history of poliomyelitis.

1907 CE

#3782

A hitherto undescribed disease characterized anatomically by deposits of fat and fatty acids in the intestinal and mesenteric lymphatic tissues.

“Whipple’s disease”. Whipple suggested the name lipodystrophia intestinalis (intestinal lipodystrophy) for this condition because there were abnormal lipid deposits in the small intestine wall. In fi…

1892 CE

#2509

A manual of bacteriology.

Sternberg, U. S. Surgeon General 1893-1902, was a pioneer bacteriologist. Independently of Pasteur he discovered the pneumococcus and was first in America to photograph the tubercle bacillus. He sent Walter Reed off t…

1911 CE

#2404

A method for the pure cultivation of pathogenic Treponema pallidum (Spirochaeta pallida).

Pure culture of T. pallidum first obtained. Digital facsimile from digitalcommon.oshu.edu at this link.

1909 CE

#5379

A micro-organism which apparently has a specific relationship to Rocky Mountain spotted fever. A preliminary report.

Description of the causal organism, in blood smears.

1932 CE

#5541.1

A morphological study of psittacosis virus, with the description of a developmental cycle.

Conclusive proof of the causal relationship of the psittacosis agent to the infection.

1940 CE

#10951

A neurotropic virus isolated from the blood of a native in Uganda.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Smithburn, Hughes, Burke. In 1937 the authors isolated a virus from the blood of an adult female with fever from the Omogo West Nile district of Uganda, and named it West Nil…

1994 CE

#12436

A new coccidian parasite (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from humans.

Based on very high magnification electron transmission micrographs and contrast microscopy, Ortega and colleagues fully characterized the parasite and named it Cyclospora cayetanensis n. sp., naming it after Universid…

1919 CE

#5044

A new generation of paratyphoid.

Hirszfeld gave an important description of Salmonella paratyphi C. (“Hirszfeld’s bacillus”).

2019 CE

#11462

A new genomic blueprint of the human gut microbiota.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Almeida, Mitchell, Boland.... Abstract: "The composition of the human gut microbiota is linked to health and disease, but knowledge of individual microbial species is n…

1922 CE

#5255.2

A new malaria parasite of man.

Plasmodium ovale described.

1948 CE

#2526

A new mycobacterial infection in man.

Myco. ulcerans first described. With J. C. Tolhurst, G. Buckle, and H. A. Sissons.

1900 CE

#5530.3

A new pathogenic mould (formerly described as a protozoon: Coccidioides immitis pyogenes). Preliminary report.

Recognition that the protozoan was the pathogenic phase of a mycelial fungus.

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…

2019 CE

#10916

A new segmented virus associated with human febrile illness in China.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Wang, Ze-Dong; Wang, Bo; Wei, Feng. Discovery of a new tick-borne virus that the authors name the "Alongshan virus" (ALSV) in the family Flaviridae. Digital facsimile from ne…

1969 CE

#5351.7

A new series of 2-aminomethyltetrahydroquinoline derivatives displaying schistosomicidal activity in rodents and primates.

Oxamniquinine.

1931 CE

#2524

A new series of graded collodion membranes suitable for general bacteriological use, especially in filterable virus studies.

In his important studies on the filtration of virus preparations, Elford showed that different viruses possessed different and characteristic sizes.

1902 CE

#5363

A new species of hookworm (Uncinaria americana) parasitic in man.

Discovery of the American species of hookworm, afterward re-named Necator americanus. It was later believed to have originated in Africa, being brought over by slaves.

1982 CE

#11058

A new subtype of human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-II) associated with a T-cell variant of hairy cell leukemia.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Kalyanaraman, Sarngadharan,... Gallo. Discovery by Gallo of HTLV-II, which like HTLV-I, is carcinogenic. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)

1720 CE

#3217

A new theory of consumptions : more especially of a phthisis, or consumption of the lungs.

Marten believed that an infectious micro-organism was the cause of tuberculosis, thus forecasting the existence of the tubercle bacillus 162 years before its actual discovery. Though Leeuwenhoek reported seeing bacter…

1984 CE

#12664

A new type of papillomavirus DNA, its presence in genital cancer biopsies and in cell lines derived from cervical cancer.

Zur Hausen and colleagues discovered HPV18 as a cause of cervical cancer. With the discovery of HPV18, and HPV16, which zur Hausen and team discovered in 1983, zur Hausen discovered the viruses causing about 75% of hu…

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…

1940 CE

#5498

A new type of virus from epidemic influenza.

Recovery of influenza B virus.

1996 CE

#10844

A new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK.

During the 1990s England was plagued with cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) seen in cows, popularly known as "Mad Cow Disease." Then physicians in England started noticing an uptick in cases of what look…