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Henrique da Rocha Lima

Brazilian microbiologist · Brazil · Doctors · Lived 1879 to 1956 · aged 76

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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.

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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).

Country
Brazil
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1879 to 1956 · aged 76

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