Weil's Disease
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چکیده
WEIL'S DISEASE, since its original clinical description by Adolf Weil of Heidelberg in 1886, has been diagnosed clinically in many parts of the world. Inade and Ido in 1914 discovered the pathogenic agent by inoculating the blood from a patient during the first week of the disease into a guinea-pig and found that the organism responsible was a spirochaete. Noguchi, who also studied the organism, described its typical morphology and called it the Leptospira Icterohaemorrhagica. This opened the way to more accurate diagnosis by bacteriological methods and to experimental investigation of this infection.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Ulster Medical Journal
دوره 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1941