Jørgen C. Siim

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Jørgen C. Siim (born October 1, 1915 in Copenhagen ; † February 16, 2012 ) was a Danish parasitologist .

Siim had been doing toxoplasmosis research in Denmark since the 1940s . In 1956 he showed that lymphadenopathy is the most common symptom of toxoplasmosis in humans. In 1960 he developed a precipitation test for antibodies to toxoplasmosis. He was head of the toxoplasmosis department at the State Serum Institute in Copenhagen. From the 1960s he worked with William M. Hutchison , among others , with whom he received the Robert Koch Prize in 1970 for research into toxoplasmosis .

The collaboration with Hutchison (and DJP Ferguson) continued into the 1980s with electron microscopic studies of the life cycle of the toxoplasmosis pathogen.

Fonts

  • as editor: Human toxoplasmosis . Proceedings of the conference on clinical aspects and diagnostic problems of toxoplasmosis in pediatrics, Copenhagen, Munksgaard 1960.

literature

  • Jitender Dubey: History of Toxoplasma gondii - the first 100 years , J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., Vol. 55, 2008, p. 467

Web links

  • Entry in Dansk Biografisk Leksikon; Retrieved October 24, 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kongelige Danske videnskabernes selskab, Carlsbergfondet (Copenhagen, Denmark): Oversigt over selskabets virksomhed, p. 55, Munksgaard, 2005
  2. ↑ Siim Toxoplasmosis acquisita lymphonodosa: clinical and pathological aspects , Annals New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 64, 1956, pp. 185-206
  3. ↑ Siim, K. Lind A Toxoplasma flocculation test , Acta Path. Microbiol. Scand., Vol. 50, 1960, p. 445
  4. ↑ DJP Ferguson Identification of faecal transmission of Toxoplasma gondii: Small science, large characters , Int. J. Parasitology, Vol. 39, 2009, p. 871
personal data
SURNAME Siim, Jørgen C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish parasitologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2012