An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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MARSHALL, Barry James

2 entries
  • 8475

Unidentified curved bacilli on gastric epithelium in active chronic gastritis.

Lancet, 321, (8336), 1273-5, 1983.

In 2005 Marshall and Warren shared the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease."

See also their follow-up paper published in 1984: "Unidentified curved bacilli in the stomach of patients with gastritis and peptic ulceration", Lancet, 323 (8390) 1311-15, 1984.



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Gram-Negative Bacteria › Helicobacter, GASTROENTEROLOGY › Diseases of the Digestive System › Gastric / Duodenal Ulcer, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • 8476

Helicobacter pioneers: Firsthand accounts from the scientists who discovered helicobacters 1892-1982. Edited by Barry Marshall.

Victoria, Australia: Blackwell Science Asia Pty Ltd, 2002.

RE the history of this discovery see this Wikipedia timeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_peptic_ulcer_disease_and_Helicobacter_pylori .



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › History of Bacteriology, GASTROENTEROLOGY › History of Gastroenterology