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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.
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 .
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.
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
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.
- 26 de abril de 1956, São Paulo, SP
- Medicina
- 24 de novembro de 1879, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Henrique da Rocha Lima and German–Brazilian Relations, 1919–1927 by André Felipe Cândido da Silva Abstract. – This paper addresses the Brazilian physician Henrique da Rocha Lima’s (1879–1956) activism in favour of German–Brazilian scientific relations from 1919 to 1927.
André Felipe Cândido da Silva I t was while working on some research for my Masters thesis (Silva, 2006) into the coffee berry borer, a pest that threatened to bring Brazil’s main export industry to its knees in the 1920s, that I first came across a wealth of documentation concerning Henrique da Rocha Lima (1879-1956).
