Facets

1937

#5397

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

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

1937

#5398

Experimental studies on the virus of “Q” fever.

Discovery of Rickettsia burneti, causal agent in Q fever.

1937

#5467

The use of yellow fever virus modified by in vitro cultivation for human immunization.

Immunization without the use of immune serum. In 1951 Theiler was awared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of an effective vaccine against yellow fever." This was the first Nobel Prize award…

1937

#12008

Cultivation of the virus of infectious bronchitis.

The authors were the first to isolate a pathogenic coronavirus in chickens. This was the first pathogenic coronavirus described. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1938

#4659.1

Human encephalitis caused by the virus of the Eastern variety of equine encephalomyelitis.

Isolation of the virus of Eastern equine encephalitis from man. With J. H. Dingle, S. Farber, and M. L. Connerley.

1938

#4660

Recovery of the virus of equine encephalomyelitis from the brain of a child.

Western equine encephalitis virus recovered from man.

1938

#2576.7

Recherches sur le phénomène de Twort-d’Hérelle (bactériophage ou autolyse hérédo-contagieuse).

The Wollmans made important contributions to the knowledge on bacteriophage and lysogeny.

1938

#2580

The history of bacteriology.

This pioneering and classic history includes brief biographical notes of the more important workers (arranged in a separate section), and an extensive bibliography.

1938

#3211

An acute infection of the respiratory tract with atypical pneumonia: A disease entity probably caused by a filterable virus.

Atypical pneumonia.

1938

#5045.1

The preparation of anti-typhoid serum in the horse for therapeutic use in man.

Typhoid antiserum.

1938

#5308.1

Demonstratión de un treponema en el borde activo un caso de pinto de las manos y pies y en la linfa de ganglios superficiales (reporte preliminar).

B. Saenz, J. Grau Triana, and J. Alfonso Armenteros indicated that pinta is caused by a treponeme, T. carateum.

1938

#5449

Culture “in vitro” du virus de la rougeole.

Successful cultivation of measles virus.

1938

#5467.1

Yellow fever virus in jungle mosquitoes.

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

1938

#5258

Exo-erythrocytic schizogony in Plasmodium gallinaceum Brumpt, 1935.

The term “exo-erythrocytic stage” introduced to describe the unpigmented schizonts found in tissue cells. The parasite Plasmodium gallincaceum described by Alexandre Joseph Emile Brumpt causes malaria in poultry.

1939

#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.

1939

#4671.2

Successful transfer of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus from the cotton rat to the white mouse.

Armstrong adapted the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis to the cotton rat and then to the mouse, greatly facilitating experimental work on the disease.

1939

#2525

The anaerobic bacteria and their activities in nature and disease. A subject bibliography. 2 vols.

Supplements were published: 1938-1975, 8 vols., 1941-82.

1939

#2581

Bacteriology.

A much briefer history than Bulloch’s but with a thorough and accurate bibliography.

1939

#5172.1

The use of anthrax vaccines prepared from avirulent (uncapsulatec) variants of Bacillus anthracis.

Nonencapsulated spore vaccine.

1939

#5484.3

Infection of chicks and chick embryos with rabies.

Cultivation of rabies virus in the chick embryo. Soon afterwards I. J. Kligler and H. Bernkopf, Nature, 1939, 143, 899, made a similar report.

1939 –2015

#12964

The collected letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek / Alle de Brieven van Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek. Edited, illustrated & annotated by a committee of Dutch scientists. 17 vols. through 2015.

1940

#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.

1940

#4661.1

Studies of a murine strain of poliomyelitis virus in cotton rats and white mice.

Isolation of encephalomyocarditis virus.

1940

#5498

A new type of virus from epidemic influenza.

Recovery of influenza B virus.

1940

#5499

A virus from cases of influenza-like upper-respiratory infection.

Recovery of influenza B virus.

1940

#5398.2

Rickettsia disease of Malaya. Identity of tsutsugamushi and rural typhus.

Lewthwaite and Savoor showed scrub typhus to be identical to tsutsugamushi fever.

1940

#5259

Klinische und parasitologische Befunde und chemotherapeutische Ergebnisse bei der Hühnermalaria.

Discovery of the developmental forms of P. gallinaceum in the incubation period.

1940

#5259.1

The form of Plasmodium, gallinaceum present in the incubation period of the infection.

Independently of Mudrow, H. E. Shortt, K. P. Menon, and P. V. Seetharama Iyer found pre-erythrocytic forms of P. gallinaceum in the tissues.

1940

#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…

1941

#2577

The agglutination of red cells by allantoic fluid of chick embryos infected with influenza virus.

Discovery of virus hemagglutination. Between 1941 and 1942 Hirst developed the hemagglutination assay for quantifying the relative concentration of viruses, bacteria or antibodies.

1941

#2578

The absorption of influenza virus by red cells and a new in vitro method of measuring antibodies for influenza virus.

Independently of Hirst, McClelland and Hare discovered virus hemagglutination.

1941

#5096

Sulfanilylguanidine in the treatment of acute bacillary dysentery in children.

E. K. Marshall, A. C. Bratton, L. B. Edwards, and E. L. Walker were the first to use sulphaguanidine in the treatment of bacillary dysentery.

1942

#14004

The identification and characterization of bacteriophages with the electron microscope.

First identification, observation under the electron microscope, and reproduction of photomicrographs of bacteriophages taken through the electron microscope. Digital facsimile, but with poor reproductions of the two …

1943

#567

The discovery of the uses of colouring agents in biological microtechnique.

1943

#5990

Epidemic keratoconjunctivitis. I. Isolation and identification of a filterable virus.

1943

#10952

Transmission of West Nile virus by infected Aedes albopictus.

The authors demonstrated that the Aedes albopictus mosquito is the vector of West Nile virus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1943

#14005

Electron microscope studies of bacterial viruses.

This work demonstrated the absorption of the phages on the host cell, and the lysis of the host cell and the liberation of a hundred or so daughter paritcles from each cell. It also showed that the particles multiply …

1944

#5398.3

The therapeutic effect of para-aminobenzic acid in louse-borne typhus fever.

With J. C. Snyder, E. S. Murray, C. J. D. Zarafonetis, and R. S. Ecke.

1944

#5259.2

The development of Plasmodium gallinaceum from sporozoite to erythrocytic trophozoite.

First detailed account of the full cycle of development of the avian malaria parasite P. gallinaceum.

1944

#8470

Une maladie Égyptienne: l'hématurie parasitaire.

1945

#2350

Streptomycin in treatment of clinical tuberculosis: a preliminary report.

1945

#5399

Cultivation of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi in lungs of rodents. Preparation of a scrub-typhus vaccine.

Scrub-typhus vaccine.

1946

#2578.5

Induced mutations in bacterial viruses.

Genetic recombination in bacteriophages. In 1969 Delbrück shared the Nobel Prize with A. D. Hershey and S. E. Luria "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses."

1946

#5544.2

Immunity in mumps. VI. Experiments on the vaccination of human beings with formolized mumps virus.

With E. P. Maris, and L. W. Kane.

1946

#5351.2

Miracil, ein neues Chemotherapeuticum gegen die Darmbilharziose.

Lucanthone hydrochloride (Miracil D). With R. Gönnert and H. Mauss.

1946

#5400

Rickettsialpox. A newly recognized rickettsial disease. IV. Isolation of a rickettsia apparently identical with the causative agent of rickettsialpox from Allodermanyssus sanguineus, a rodent mite.

Isolation of Rickettsia akari, aetiologic agent of rickettsialpox. With W. L. Jellison and C. Pomerantz.

1946

#5401

Kew Gardens spotted fever.

Rickettsialpox described.

1946

#5261.1

Chloroquine for treatment of acute attacks of vivax malaria.

Harry Most led the development of chloroquine for use in treating American troops suffering from malaria. At the beginning of the American involvement in the war there were more American casualties from malaria than f…

1946

#255.4

Gene recombination in Escherichia coli.

Discovery of sexual processes in the reproduction of bacteria. In 1958 Lederberg shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tatum and Beadle (No. 254.3) "for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination…

1947

#1937

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

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