An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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Recherches experimentales sur le typhus exanthématique.

Ann. Inst. Pasteur, 24, 243-75; , 25, 97-144; 26, 250-80, 332-50, 1910 – 1911, 1912.

Nicolle demonstrated the transmission of typhus by the body louse Pediculus corporis. He also produced the disease in monkeys and guinea-pigs by the injection of infected blood. Preliminary communication in C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 1909, 149, 486-89.

In 1928 Nicolle was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery that typhus is transmitted by the body louse."



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Rickettsiales › Rickettsia › Rickettsia prowazekii , INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Lice-Borne Diseases › Typhus, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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