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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.
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.
Pesquisa. Medicina. Henrique da Rocha Lima ( Rio de Janeiro, 24 de novembro de 1879 — São Paulo, 26 de abril de 1956) foi um médico sanitarista, patologista e bacteriologista brasileiro. Ele descobriu o causador da doença tifo, a bactéria Rickettsia prowazekii.
Discovery. Henrique da Rocha Lima, a Brazilian doctor, discovered this bacterium in 1916. He named it after his colleague Stanislaus von Prowazek, who had died from typhus in 1915. Both Prowazek and Rocha Lima had been infected with typhus while studying its causative agent in a prisoner-of-war camp hospital in Cottbus, Germany. [2] .
The bacterium is a close relative of Bartonella quintana, the microbe which caused trench fever in thousands of soldiers during World War I. [2] Named after Brazilian scientist Henrique da Rocha Lima, [3] B. rochalimae is also closely related to Bartonella henselae, a bacterium identified in the mid-1990s during the AIDS epidemic in San ...
Henrique da Rocha Lima (né en 1879 à Rio de Janeiro - mort en 1956) est un médecin, pathologiste et infectiologue brésilien. Il a notamment découvert Rickettsia prowazekii, l'agent pathogène du typhus .
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