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