In memory of Patrick Manson, founding father of tropical medicine and the discovery of vector-borne infections

Patrick Manson, a clinician-scientist serving in China (1866–1889), discovered that many tropical infectious diseases require a vector peculiar to warm climate for person to person transmission. He demonstrated the nocturnal periodicity of microfilariae in the blood of patients with elephantiasis. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: To, Kelvin KW, Yuen, Kwok-Yung
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3630944/