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Max Theiler, the Glossary

Max Theiler (30 January 1899 – 11 August 1972) was a South African-American virologist and physician.^[1]

39 relations: American Public Health Association, Amoebiasis, Arnold Theiler, Bacteriologist, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Chalmers Medal, Ernest William Goodpasture, Harvard University, Hideyo Noguchi, Lasker Award, Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, London, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Multiple sclerosis, New Haven, Connecticut, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Pretoria, Pretoria Boys High School, Rat-bite fever, Rhesus macaque, Rhodes University, Rockefeller Foundation, Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, South Africa, South African Americans, South African Republic, St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, Theiler's encephalomyelitis virus, University of Cape Town, Vaccine, Virology, Virus, West Africa, Wilbur Downs, Yale School of Medicine, Yale School of Public Health, Yellow fever.
Alumni of Pretoria Boys High School
Alumni of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School
South African Nobel laureates
South African people of Swiss descent
Swiss Nobel laureates

American Public Health Association

The American Public Health Association (APHA) is a Washington, D.C.-based professional membership and advocacy organization for public health professionals in the United States.

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Amoebiasis

Amoebiasis, or amoebic dysentery, is an infection of the intestines caused by a parasitic amoeba Entamoeba histolytica.

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Sir Arnold Theiler KCMG (26 March 1867 – 24 July 1936) Pour le Mérite is considered to be the father of veterinary science in South Africa. Max Theiler and Arnold Theiler are south African people of Swiss descent and south African scientists.

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Bacteriologist

A bacteriologist is a microbiologist, or similarly trained professional, in bacteriology— a subdivision of microbiology that studies bacteria, typically pathogenic ones.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Chalmers Medal

The Chalmers Medal is the major mid-career award of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

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Ernest William Goodpasture

Ernest William Goodpasture (October 17, 1886 – September 20, 1960) was an American pathologist and physician.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hideyo Noguchi

, also known as, was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who in 1911 discovered the agent of syphilis as the cause of progressive paralytic disease.

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Lasker Award

In 1945 Albert Lasker and Mary Woodard Lasker created the Lasker Awards.

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Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award

Lasker–DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award is one of four annual awards presented by the Lasker Foundation.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is a public research university in Bloomsbury, central London, and a member institution of the University of London that specialises in public health and tropical medicine.

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Multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged.

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New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin) is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine.

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Pretoria

Pretoria, is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa.

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Pretoria Boys High School

Pretoria Boys High School (colloquially known as "Boys High") is a public, tuition-charging, English-medium high school for boys situated in the suburb of Brooklyn in Pretoria in the Gauteng province of South Africa, founded in 1901 by Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner.

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Rat-bite fever

Rat-bite fever (RBF) is an acute, febrile human illness caused by bacteria transmitted by rodents, in most cases, which is passed from rodent to human by the rodent's urine or mucous secretions.

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Rhesus macaque

The rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), colloquially rhesus monkey, is a species of Old World monkey.

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Rhodes University

Rhodes University (Rhodes Universiteit) is a public research university located in Makhanda (Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.

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Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

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Royal College of Physicians

The Royal College of Physicians of London, commonly referred to simply as the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination.

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Royal College of Surgeons of England

The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS England) is an independent professional body and registered charity that promotes and advances standards of surgical care for patients, and regulates surgery and dentistry in England and Wales.

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Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, more commonly known by its acronym RSTMH, was founded in 1907 by Sir James Cantlie and George Carmichael Low.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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South African Americans

South African Americans are Americans who have full or partial ancestry from South Africa.

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South African Republic

The South African Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, abbreviated ZAR; Suid-Afrikaanse Republiek), also known as the Transvaal Republic, was an independent Boer republic in Southern Africa which existed from 1852 to 1902, when it was annexed into the British Empire as a result of the Second Boer War.

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St Thomas's Hospital Medical School

St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London was one of the oldest and most prestigious medical schools in the UK.

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Theiler's encephalomyelitis virus

Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) is a single-stranded RNA murine cardiovirus from the family Picornaviridae.

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University of Cape Town

The University of Cape Town (UCT)(Universiteit van Kaapstad, iYunivesithi yaseKapa) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Vaccine

A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease.

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Virology

Virology is the scientific study of biological viruses.

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Virus

A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.

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West Africa

West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.

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Wilbur Downs

Wilbur George Downs (7 August 1913, in Perth Amboy, New Jersey – 17 February 1991, in Branford, Connecticut), was a naturalist, virologist and clinical professor of epidemiology and public health at the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale School of Public Health. Max Theiler and Wilbur Downs are American virologists.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Theiler

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Alumni of Pretoria Boys High School

Alumni of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School

South African Nobel laureates

South African people of Swiss descent

Swiss Nobel laureates

References