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Henrique da Rocha Lima

Brazilian microbiologist

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Lived 1879–1956, aged 77Brazil
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    1879–1956
    Aged 77
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Updated 2026-06-25

Henrique da Rocha Lima was a Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist born in Rio de Janeiro. With his friend, Stanislaus von Prowazek, he described what would later be known as Rickettsia prowazekii, the pathogen of epidemic typhus. Rocha Lima named the organism after Prowazek and American bacteriologist Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871-1910).

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