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79 entries match Americas (non-U.S.) [Z01.107] · Plagues & Epidemics [C01.252]

1910

#5380

The relation of typhus fever (tabardillo) to Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Ricketts and Wilder differentiated Rocky Mountain spotted fever and typhus.

1910

#5380.1

The etiology of the typhus fever (tabardillo) of Mexico City. A further preliminary report.

Demonstration of the causal organism of typhus.

1911

#5285.1

Contribuiçao para o estudo da anatomia patolojica da “molestia de Carlos Chagas”.

Demonstration of the mode of reproduction of T. cruzi. Text in Portuguese and German. See also the paper by Chagas in pp. 219-75 of the same journal.

1911

#5460.1

Fiebre amarilla y fiebre espiroquetal; endemias y epidemias en Muzo, de 1907 a 1910.

Franco, J. Martínez-Santamaria, and G. Toro-Villa described epidemics of yellow fever spread by mosquitoes other than Ae. aegypti. Later F. L. Soper, et al., Amer. J. Hyg., 1933, 18, 555-87, substantiated this.

1912

#10921

Does a human tick-borne disease exist in British Columbia?

Report on the first cases of "tick paralysis", a potentially lethal disease treatable by removing the tick. Follow-up paper by Todd: "Tick bite in British Columbia," Canad. med. Assoc. J., 2 (1912) 1118-1119. Unlike m…

1913

#5300.1

Un cas de kala-azar à Asuncion (Paraguay).

Migone first noted the existence of visceral leishmaniasis in the Americas (Paraguay).

1914

#5301

Sobre o tratemento de leishmaniose tegumentar.

Vianna introduced tartar emetic in the treatment of S. American leishmaniasis. His preliminary announcement on this form of treatment was made to the Brazilian Dermatological Society and appears in Arch. brasil. Med.,…

1915

#9259

Sanitation in Panama.

"Gorgas capitalized on the momentous work of ... Walter Reed, who had himself built much of his work on insights of a Cuban doctor, Carlos Finlay, to prove the mosquito transmission of yellow fever. He won internation…

1915

#12573

Report of first expedition to South America 1913.

Strong was the first professor of tropical medicine at Harvard. The Harvard School of Tropical Medicine was founded in 1913, the year they undertook this expedition. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1926

#12574

Medical report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh expedition to the Amazon In conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924-1925

"The Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to Amazonia was undertaken [under the leadership of Richard Pearson Strong] partly for general geographical exploration and partly for medical investigation in a section of the Am…

1928

#5396.1

Experiments relating to the pathology and the etiology of Mexican typhus (tabardillo).

Mooser differentiated murine from epidemic typhus. The causative organism was later named Rickettsia mooseri.

1934

#12575

Onchocerciasis: With special reference to the Central American form of the disease. Parts I, II, III, and IV

In depth study of onchcerciasis in Guatemala, where "the disease was of real importance to human beings" at the time. Each of the 4 authors contributed a separate part of the report.

1937

#2430

Who gave the world syphilis? The Haitian myth.

1938

#12593

A medical survey of the republic of Guatemala, by George Cheever Shattuck. With the collaboration of Joseph C. Bequaert, Margaret M. Hilferty, Jack H. Sandground [and] Samuel Drury Clark.

Organized and directed by the Department of Tropical Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1944 –1948

#2447

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

Supplements 1-5, 1952-62.

1962

#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…

1965 –1971

#9423

Obras completa. Compiladas por César Rodriguez Expósito. 5 vols.

1969

#8936

História da febre-amarela no Brasil.

Digital facsimile from bvsms.saude.gov.br at this link.

1979

#13368

Evolution des sciences de la santé et de l'hygiène publique en Haiti. Vol.1, Fin de la période coloniale-1915.

1985

#8820

Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.

1991

#10984

Plague: A story of smallpox in Montreal.

1997

#8862

A ciéncia dos trópicos: A arte médica no Brasil do sécolo XVIII.

1999

#7838

Race, place, and medicine: The idea of the tropics in nineteenth-century Brazilian medicine.

2004

#9025

Stories in the time of cholera: Racial profiling during a medical nightmare.

'In 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-…

2010

#9389

Mosquito empires: Ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914.

"explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth cen…

2011

#7940

The ailing city: Health, tuberculosis, and culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950.

2016

#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 …

2017

#10945

Genomic epidemiology reveals multiple introductions of Zika virus into the United States.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Grubaugh, Ladner, Kraemer. The authors found that the Zika virus was introduced into Florida at least 4 times, but perhaps as many as 40 times, before it was detected, …

2018

#11474

Assembling the tropics: Science and medicine in Portugal's empire, 1450-1700.