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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 .
Carlos Henrique da Rocha Lima, conhecido como Professor Rocha Lima (Rio de Janeiro, 22 de outubro de 1915 — Rio de Janeiro, 22 de junho de 1991), foi um professor, gramático, filólogo, ensaísta e linguista brasileiro, autor de inúmeras obras, entre elas uma Gramática Normativa da Língua Portuguesa.
- 22 de junho de 1991
- 22 de outubro de 1915, Rio de Janeiro
- Brasil
- professor universitário, romanista
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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 .
Aug 16, 2014 · 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 ...
- Fred Bernardes Filho, João Carlos Regazzi Avelleira
- 10.1590/abd1806-4841.20153945
- 2015
- May-Jun 2015
Medicina. Henrique da Rocha Lima (24 de novembro de 1879, Rio de Janeiro, RJ — 26 de abril de 1956, São Paulo, SP) foi um médico sanitarista, patologista e bacteriologista brasileiro. Ele descobriu o causador da doença tifo, a bactéria Rickettsia prowazekii.
- 26 de abril de 1956, São Paulo, SP
- Medicina
- 24 de novembro de 1879, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
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 prison hospital in Hamburg, Germany. [2]
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 ...