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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.
His histopathological research resulted in a profound change in the anatomical and clinical concept of yellow fever. 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.
Apr 3, 2023 · In 1916, Brazilian physician Henrique da Rocha Lima established that the disease was caused by a bacterium he named Rickettsia prowazekii. That name honors the legacy of American pathologist Howard T. Ricketts and Czech bacteriologist Stanislaus Joseph Mathias von Prowazek, Rocha Lima’s colleague, both of whom contracted fatal cases of typhus ...
- Byron Breedlove
- Emerg Infect Dis. 2023 Apr; 29(4): 871-872.
- 10.3201/eid2904.AC2904
- 2023/04
Aug 16, 2014 · Brazilian physician and researcher Henrique da Rocha Lima was born in 1879 in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The son of renowned clinician Carlos Henrique da Rocha Lima and Hermizilia Cassia da Rocha Lima obtained his degree if M.D. in 1901 from the National Medical School and travelled to Germany to specialize in Clinical Medicine. 1.
- Fred Bernardes Filho, João Carlos Regazzi Avelleira
- 10.1590/abd1806-4841.20153945
- 2015
- May-Jun 2015
Henrique da Rocha Lima (* 24. November 1879 in Rio de Janeiro; † 26. April 1956) war ein brasilianischer Mediziner und Pathologe. Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben. 2 Schriften (Auswahl) 3 Literatur. 4 Weblinks. 5 Einzelnachweise. Leben. 1901 wurde Henrique da Rocha Lima in Rio de Janeiro promoviert .
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. Rocha Lima named the organism after Prowazek and American bacteriologist Howard Taylor Ricketts .
Abstract. 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. He specialized in Clinical Medicine in Germany and was the ambassador in European countries of the scientific medicine that emerged from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute ...
