Abstract

LOPEZ ESPINOSA , José Antonio. La prioridad de Carlos J. Finlay en el descubrimiento del vector amarílico. ACIMED [online]. 2004, vol.12, n.1. ISSN 1024-9435.

Starting from a brief analysis of classic bibliography on yellow fever, the fist studies carried out in Cuba on this condition carried out in Cuba and some important writings on this topic by Carlos J. Finlay the priority of the Cuban wise in the discovery of the mode of transmission of this condition by the Aedes aegypti mosquito and also the prevention method corroborating, at the same time, that in that sense there were not precedings. To corroborate this statement, a translation to Spanish of a letter sent by Walter Reed to Carlos J Finlay dated in October, 1900 requesting information on the experiments carried out with the insect. A relation of the first discoveries all over the world related conditions transmitted by blood sucking insects mentioning the authors and years of appearance and also a list of the names of the volunteers inoculated by Finlay between 1881 and 1900 containing date and place of the test are included.

Keywords : BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MEDICINE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; FAMOUS PERSONS; YELLOW FEVER [etiology]; YELLOW FEVER [prevention and control]; YELLOW FEVER [transmission]; CULICIDAE; AEDES; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MEDICINA; BIBLIOGRAPHY, RETROSPECTIVE [análisis]; FAMOUS PERSONS; YELLOW FEVER.

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