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Henrique da Rocha Lima (24 November 1879 – 12 April 1956) was a Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist born in Rio de Janeiro. With his friend, Stanislaus von Prowazek, he described what would later be known as Rickettsia prowazekii, the pathogen of epidemic typhus.
Mar 22, 2013 · The definitive cause and cure for typhus would be proven later by other scientists, including Henrique da Rocha Lima, who identified the typhus germ in 1916 and named it Rickettsia prowazekii in honor of Ricketts and a Czech martyr to the disease.
Aug 16, 2014 · Brazilian physician and researcher Henrique da Rocha Lima was born in 1879 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, where he studied medicine and obtained the degree of M.D. in 1901.
- Fred Bernardes Filho, João Carlos Regazzi Avelleira
- 10.1590/abd1806-4841.20153945
- 2015
- May-Jun 2015
The discovery of the etiological agent of the exanthematous type is the masterpiece of Rocha Lima, who also studied rickettsia, Peruvian wart, blastomycosis, Chagas disease, poradenitis and hemoglobinuric fever.
Brazilian physician Henrique da Rocha Lima (1879–1956) was the leading promoter of scientific relations between Brazil and Germany in the first half of the twentieth century. 1 He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Rio
Who was Henrique da Rocha Lima? Henrique da Rocha Lima was a Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist born in Rio de Janeiro. With his friend, Stanislaus von Prowazek, he described what would later be known as Rickettsia prowazekii, the pathogen of epidemic typhus.
Henrique da Rocha Lima was a Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist born in Rio de Janeiro. With his friend, Stanislaus von Prowazek, he described what would later be known as Rickettsia prowazekii, the pathogen of epidemic typhus.
