Research Contributions
The following list contains a few of the contributions made at the Bernhard Nocht Institute :
- 1904 Nocht's assistant, chemist Gustav Giemsa creates the Giemsa stain, an improvement of the existing Romanowsky stain.
- 1916 Pathologist Henrique da Rocha Lima identifies the causative agent (Rickettsia prowazeki} of epidemic typhus.
- 1911-1926 Improvements regarding malaria therapy are made; experimentation is concentrated on producing effective derivatives of quinine to reduce side-effects.
- 1918 Dr. Rocha-Lima identifies the causative agent of trench fever (Rochalimea quintana), later renamed Borrelia.
- 1943 The discovery concerning the missing part of the reproduction cycle of Plasmodium praecox in bird malaria is made.
- 1950 Helminthologist Hans Vogel demonstrates that macaques can be immunized against Schistosoma japonicum, the cause of Far Eastern schistosomiasis.
- 1961 Dr. Vogel publishes the life cycle of Echinococcus multilocularis.
- 1968 Dr. Mueller identifies the Marburg virus in electronmicroscopy.
- 1985 In a joint project with American scientists, Paul Racz and Klara Tenner-Racz exhibit that in patients infected with HIV, massive viral replication takes place in the lymph nodes.
- 2003 BNI virologists identify the SARS virus as a Coronavirus
Today the institute continues its research and treatment of tropical diseases, including dangerous diseases such as Lassa fever, Marburg virus, Ebola fever and leishmaniasis.
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