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TODD, John Lancelot (1876 – 1949)

TODD, John Lancelot (1876 – 1949)

1876 – 1949

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1905 CE

#5318

The nature of tick fever in the eastern part of the Congo Free State.

DUTTON, Joseph Everett (1877 – 1905)
TODD, John Lancelot (1876 – 1949)
TODD, John Lancelot (1876 – 1949)

Independently of Ross and Milne, Dutton and Todd demonstrated relapsing fever in monkeys conveyed by infected ticks, Omithodorus moubata. The organism was named Sp. (now Borrelia) duttoni. Both Dutton and Todd contrac…

1912 CE

#10921

Does a human tick-borne disease exist in British Columbia?

TODD, John Lancelot (1876 – 1949)
TODD, John Lancelot (1876 – 1949)

Report on the first cases of "tick paralysis", a potentially lethal disease treatable by removing the tick. Follow-up paper by Todd: "Tick bite in British Columbia," Canad. med. Assoc. J., 2 (1912) 1118-1119. Unlike m…

1922 CE

#5393

The etiology and pathology of typhus. Being the main report of the Typhus Research Commission of the League of Red Cross Societies to Poland.

TODD, John Lancelot (1876 – 1949)
TODD, John Lancelot (1876 – 1949) WOLBACH, Simeon Burt (1880 – 1954) PALFREY, Francis Winslow (1876 – 1953)

The carefully controlled experiments of Wolbach, Todd, and Palfrey eliminated all doubt that R. prowazeki was the causal agent in typhus. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.