Title:

The Relationship of Yellow Fever of the Western Hemisphere to that of Africa and to Leptospiral Jaundice

Creator:

Frobisher, Martin, 1896-1984
Lloyd, Wray
Kitchen, S. F.
Sawyer, Wilbur A.

Date:

1929

Description:

The microorganism that causes yellow fever was not definitively identified until several decades after the disease was linked to a mosquito vector. By the late 1920s, it seemed likely that more than one disease had been investigated as "yellow fever," including that caused by a leptospira bacteria. In this article, Sawyer and his colleagues described their experiments proving that the yellow fever then present in South America and West Africa, as well as earlier western hemisphere yellow fever episodes, were the same disease; and that cases of jaundice caused by leptospira were a different disease, though sometimes diagnosed as yellow fever.

Periodical:

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Publisher:

Rockefeller University. Press

Location:

Box: n/a. Folder: n/a

Rights:

Reproduced from the Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1929, 51, 493-517 by copyright permission of the Rockefeller University Press.

Genre:

Articles

Subject:

Yellow fever virus

Format:

Text

Extent:

25 pages

Relation:

The Preservation of Yellow Fever Virus, 1929

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Periodical. Sawyer, Wilbur A., S. F. Kitchen, Martin Frobisher, and Wray Lloyd. "The Relationship of Yellow Fever of the Western Hemisphere to that of Africa and to Leptospiral Jaundice." Journal of Experimental Medicine 51, (1929): 493-517. Article. 25 Images.. Journal of Experimental Medicine

Legacy ID:

LWBBBM

NLM ID:

101584931X10

Profiles Collection:

The Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584931X10

Story Section:

The Yellow Fever Laboratory: Rockefeller Foundation, 1928-1937