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Henrique da Rocha Lima. Bust at Instituto Butantan. 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.
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 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 . Henrique da Rocha Lima received his M.D. degree from ...
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
After graduation, Rocha Lima went to Germany, where he expanded, under the guidance of Ficker, his studies of microbiology and pathological anatomy, under the guidance of Kaiserling and Orth. He returned to the country two years later, when he collaborated intensely with Oswaldo Cruz, between 1903 and 1909.
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 ...
Mar 1, 2013 · de Henrique da Rocha Lima e as relações Brasil-Alemanha, 1901-1956” (The scientific trajectory of Henrique da Rocha Lima and Brazil-Germany relations, 1901-1956).
