Hermann Mooser

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Hermann Mooser (born May 3, 1891 in Maienfeld , Canton of Graubünden , † June 20, 1971 in Zurich ) was a Swiss biologist and physician who dealt in particular with bacteriology and microbiology . He is the discoverer of murine spotted fever .

Life

After attending school, Mooser studied medicine at the University of Lausanne , the University of Zurich and the University of Basel . After completing his studies, he first became an assistant doctor to Ferdinand Sauerbruch at the Surgical University Clinic in Zurich in 1918 and at the Institute for Pathology at the University of Basel in 1919 . In 1920 he presented at the University of Zurich in the department of Otto Busse his promotion to Doctor of Medicine with a thesis on the topic A case of endogenous obesity with severe osteoporosis: A contribution to the pathology of internal secretion and was following medical assistant at the Institute of Hygiene University of Zurich.

He then worked abroad for sixteen years, initially as a doctor at the American Hospital in Mexico City between 1921 and 1928 , before becoming professor of bacteriology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1930 . In addition to his medical and teaching activities, he dealt in particular with research into infections caused by rickettsia , such as typhus and relapsing fever . During his stay in Mexico in 1928 he discovered the causative agent of murine typhus, the "Rikettsia mooseri" named after him .

After returning to Switzerland in 1936, he accepted a professorship at the University of Zurich and taught there until his retirement in 1961. During this time, he was also director of the University's Institute for Hygiene and Bacteriology.

In November 1941, he sat down at Francis Peyton Rous , a researcher at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and later Nobel laureate in medicine , for their financial support for the production of a typhoid - vaccine for the Warsaw Ghetto one. In 1941 he received "in recognition of the great scientific importance and the practical benefit of his tireless, purposeful research and his publications, especially from 1941, through the knowledge of the etiology, epidemiology and prophylaxis of typhus, which is known to be particularly dangerous in times of war has also been awarded the Marcel Benoist Prize in recognition of his efforts to manufacture a vaccine in Switzerland to combat typhus " . In 1951 he received the Bernhard Nocht Medal .

He published the results of his work in a number of specialist books and articles in specialist journals such as:

  • On the mode of transmission of spotted fever: Observations on the occasion of a laboratory group infection (co-author Wilhelm Löffler ). In: Swiss Medical Weekly , Vol. 72 (1942), No. 28
  • For the control of epidemic typhus and epidemic relapsing fever: Publication of the United Aid of the International Red Cross , 1942
  • The prophylaxis of virus pneumonia in white mice by inhalation of sulfanilamide preparations . In: Swiss Medical Weekly , vol. 73 (1943), No. 52
  • The importance of the Neocid Geigy in the prevention and control of insect-borne diseases . In: Swiss Medical Weekly , Vol. 74 (1944), No. 36
  • The relationship between murine spotted fever and classic spotted fever , 1945.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bertelsmann Universal Lexikon, Volume 12, Gütersloh 1990, p. 145
  2. ^ Jean Lindenmann : Hermann Mooser, Typhus, Warsaw 1941. In: Gesnerus . Vol. 59 (2002), pp. 99-113, PMID 12149893 .
  3. ^ WH Hitzig: Hermann Mooser, Typhus, Warsaw 1941. Review of the article by Jean Lindenmann in Gesnerus 2002; 59: 99-113 . In: Schweizerische Ärztezeitung, 2004, 85 (11): p. 589.
  4. ^ Fondation Marcel Benoist
personal data
SURNAME Mooser, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss bacteriologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Maienfeld , Canton of Graubünden , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1971
Place of death Zurich