TY - JOUR KW - Communicable Diseases KW - History, 19th Century KW - Humans KW - leprosy KW - Microbiology KW - Venezuela KW - Yellow Fever AU - Godoy G AU - Tarradath E AB -

Louis Daniel Beauperthuy was a pioneer of microbiology in Venezuela where he developed microscopic and clinical research together with academic and scientific observation related to leprosy and the role of insects in the transmission of febrile illnesses.

BT - Journal of medical biography C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20207900?dopt=Abstract DA - 2010 Feb DO - 10.1258/jmb.2009.009095 IS - 1 J2 - J Med Biogr LA - eng N2 -

Louis Daniel Beauperthuy was a pioneer of microbiology in Venezuela where he developed microscopic and clinical research together with academic and scientific observation related to leprosy and the role of insects in the transmission of febrile illnesses.

PY - 2010 SP - 38 EP - 40 T2 - Journal of medical biography TI - Short biography of Louis Daniel Beauperthuy (1807-71): pioneer of microbiology and medical science in Venezuela. VL - 18 SN - 1758-1087 ER -