An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

PFEIFFER, Richard Friedrich Johannes

2 entries
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Vorläufige Mittheilungen über die Erregerder Influenza.

Dtsch. med. Wschr., 18, 28, 1892.

Pfeiffer discovered a bacillus, Haemophilus influenzae, “Pfeiffer’s bacillus”, which he believed to be the causal organism of influenza.



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Gram-Negative Bacteria › Haemophilus, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Influenza
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Ueber die specifische Bedeutung der Choleraimmunität (Bakteriolyse).

Z. Hyg. InfektKr., 17, 355-400; 18, 1-16, 1894, 1895.

Pfeiffer and Isayev recorded the occurrence of bacteriolysis in cholera vibrios under certain conditions: immune bacteriolysis, “Pfeiffer’s phenomenon”. Abridged English translation of second part in Bibel, Milestones in immunology (1988).



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › Bacteriolysis, IMMUNOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Cholera