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Malaria

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Earle Milford Rice Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 80
Abstract

Maps, graphs, charts, reprints, and photographs documenting Rice's cholera and malaria research in India during the 1930s. Also included are some biographical material and clippings relating to his work in South Carolina.

Dates: 1926-1941
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Fred Lowe Soper Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 359
Abstract Dr. Fred Soper joined the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1920 and engaged in the hookworm campaigns in Brazil and Paraguay (1920-1927). From 1927-1942 he was Regional Director of the IHD, at Rio de Janeiro, and was active in the study and control of yellow fever and malaria. Dr. Soper was Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau for three terms (1947-1959). The collection contains an extensive file of publications, notes, and other data relating to yellow...
Dates: 1919-1975
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 212
Abstract The Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, Incorporated (GMITP) was founded in 1921 and was named after William C. Gorgas. Gorgas was a U.S. Surgeon General and was known throughout the world as the conqueror of the mosquito and the malaria and yellow fever it transmits. His pioneer efforts in halting an epidemic of yellow fever enabled the United States to complete the Panama Canal. Its mission was to create a health education program to train researchers in tropical...
Dates: 1899-1992
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Henry Rose Carter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 160
Abstract

Primarily reprints of articles by Carter and others on the epidemiology of yellow fever and malaria. Also contains some correspondence and notes.

Dates: 1899-1968
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Letter from James B. Conant, Office of Scientific Research and Development to Michael Heidelberger

 Digital Record
Identifier: 101584940X82
Dates: 1 March 1943
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Michael Heidelberger Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 245a
Abstract

Michael Heidelberger (1888-1991) is known as one of the founders of quantitative immunochemistry, and in the course of his career studied, among others, bacterial polysaccharides (particularly pneumococcal), as well as the immunochemistry of proteins, antibodies, and antigens. The papers deal primarily with Heidelberger's career as a teacher, researcher, and active member of the scientific community.

Dates: 1901-1990 (bulk 1940-1975)
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Wojciech Antoni "Al" Krotoski papers

 Collection
Identifier: HMD MS ACC 2019-018
Abstract Personal papers related to career PHS Officer Krotoski's research on malaria and other tropical diseases, primarily from his duty station at National Hansen's Disease Center in Carville, La., especially his work on the discovery of the hypnozoite form of malaria in 1980. Contents include photomicroscopy slides/prints with accompanying lab notebook inventory; travel and teaching slides esp. from foreign research projects in China, Marshall Islands; publication files; research and...
Dates: 1950s-1995
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections