Facets

1985

#10789

Serological evidence for virus related to Simian T-Lymphotropic retrovirus III in residents of West Africa.

First report of the discovery of what became known as HIV-2 by the U.S. research group led by Kanki. This group published before the French group, but the French group had reported their data one day prior to the U.S.…

1986

#9331

Evidence for human infection with an HTLV III/LAV-like virus in Central Africa, 1959.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Nahmias, Weiss, Yao...Kanki, Essex. The authors presented evidence for the first or earliest infection with HIV in a human. This paper reported on a patient from Kinshasa, Za…

1986

#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…

1988

#11542

La médecine coloniale: Mythe et réalités.

1992

#9264

The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.

1996

#7922

Médecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique 1900-1960. Lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose.

1997

#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.

1999

#10031

Histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Philip W, Setel, Milton J. Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.

2000

#8504

Indigenous theories of contagious disease.

2000

#10033

A Plague of paradoxes: Aids, culture, and demography in Northern Tanzania.

2001

#10091

Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.

2006

#11041

Chimpanzee reservoirs of pandemic and nonpandemic HIV-1.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Keele, Van Heuverswyn, Li, Hahn. Definitive proof that SIVcpz circulated and existed in wild chimps in a given area of Africa, and that a mutation of this specific SIV in Afr…

2010

#11076

Odorant reception in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Carey, Wang, ... Carlson. The authors showed that besides CO2, the odorant receptors in the malaria mosquistoes Anopheles gambiae are sensitive to other "mostly sweat" …

2012

#8492

Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman empire.

An examination of Ottoman plague treatises and writers from the Black Death until 1923.

2014

#10778

The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations.

Using the viral genome isolated from the archival serum of the "Kinshasa patient", Lemey, Faria and colleagues deduced that the prototype African viral strain first crossed from monkeys to humans about 1920 in the are…

2015

#8274

Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.

2015

#10800

The historical ecology of malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the spirits.

2019

#13797

Eradicating smallpox in Ethiopia. Peace Corps Volunteers' Accounts of their Advantures, Challenges and Achievements. Edited by James W. Skelton, Gene L. Bartley, John Scott Porterfield, Alan Schnur.

2020

#12596

A sensory appendage protein protects malaria vectors from pyrethroids.

Researching how the malarial mosquito A. gambiae developed resistance to common pyrethroid insecticides, the authors discovered how natural selection had enabled this insect population to develop resistance. They anal…