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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

GISSMANN, Lutz (1949 – )

1949 –

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1983 CE

#12663

A papillomavirus DNA from a cervical carcinoma and its prevalence in cancer biopsy samples from different geographic regions,

HAUSEN, Harald zur (1936 – )
HAUSEN, Harald zur (1936 – ) DÜRST, Matthias GISSMANN, Lutz (1949 – ) IKENBERG, Hans (1954 – )

Zur Hausen and colleageus identified HPV 16 DNA in cervical cancer tumors by Southern blot hybridization. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1984 CE

#12664

A new type of papillomavirus DNA, its presence in genital cancer biopsies and in cell lines derived from cervical cancer.

HAUSEN, Harald zur (1936 – )
HAUSEN, Harald zur (1936 – ) GISSMANN, Lutz (1949 – ) IKENBERG, Hans (1954 – )
BOSHART, M.
BOSHART, M.
KLEINHEINZ, A.
KLEINHEINZ, A. SCHEURLEN, W.

Zur Hausen and colleagues discovered HPV18 as a cause of cervical cancer. With the discovery of HPV18, and HPV16, which zur Hausen and team discovered in 1983, zur Hausen discovered the viruses causing about 75% of hu…