An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 10, 2024

THEILER, Max

4 entries
  • 5463

Studies on the action of yellow fever virus in mice.

Ann. trop. Med. Parasit., 24, 249-72, 1930.

The intracerebral protection test in mice, a test for the diagnosis of yellow fever and for the determination of its past existence in a community, was made possible by Theiler’s discovery that white mice are susceptible to the intracerebral inoculation of the virus. 



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Yellow Fever, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Flaviviridae › Yellow Fever Virus
  • 5465.1

Untersuchungen über das Verhalten des Gelbfiebervirus in der Gewebekultur. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung seiner Kultivierbarkeit.

Zbl. Bakt., I Abt., Orig., 125, 145-58, 1932.

Yellow fever virus grown in tissue culture.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Yellow Fever, VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Flaviviridae › Yellow Fever Virus
  • 5466

A yellow fever protection test in mice by intracerebral injection.

Ann. trop. Med. Hyg., 27, 57-77, 1933.

Intracerebral protection test.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Yellow Fever
  • 5467

The use of yellow fever virus modified by in vitro cultivation for human immunization.

J. exp. Med., 65, 787-800, 1937.

Immunization without the use of immune serum. 

In 1951 Theiler was awared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of an effective vaccine against yellow fever." This was the first Nobel Prize awarded for a virus vaccine. See also Nos. 5463 and 5465.1.



Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY › Immunization, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Yellow Fever, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , VIROLOGY › VIRUSES (by Family) › Flaviviridae › Yellow Fever Virus