Brill-Zinsser disease

Zinsser eventually went to Harvard Medical School as a professor of bacteriology and immunity. There he influenced a great number of students and trainees including Max Theiler (1951 Nobel laureate for the development of the yellow fever vaccine) and John Enders (1954 Nobel laureate for growing poli...

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Published in:The Lancet (British edition) 2001-04, Vol.357 (9263), p.1198-1200
Main Author: Lutwick, Larry
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Bacterial diseases
Bacteriology
Biological and medical sciences
Brill
Brill, Nathan
Case studies
Disease
Epidemics
Eponyms
H Zinsser
History
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Human bacterial diseases
Humans
Infectious diseases
Male
Medical research
Medical sciences
N E Brill
New York City
Physicians
Rickettsial diseases
Tropical bacterial diseases
Typhoid
Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne - diagnosis
Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne - history
United States
Vector-borne diseases
Zinsser
Zinsser, Hans
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Summary:Zinsser eventually went to Harvard Medical School as a professor of bacteriology and immunity. There he influenced a great number of students and trainees including Max Theiler (1951 Nobel laureate for the development of the yellow fever vaccine) and John Enders (1954 Nobel laureate for growing poliovirus in non-neural tissue culture). Zinsser's interest in typhus continued and he collaborated in Tunis with Charles Nicolle who won the Nobel Prize for definitively incriminating body lice as the vectors of epidemic typhus. Subsequently, he studied the Mexican strain of typhus with Maximiliano Castaneda, and this collaboration resulted in the realisation that the organism responsible for epidemic typhus was the cause of Brill's disease.
ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(00)04339-7