Robert S. Desowitz

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Robert S. Desowitz

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According to Wikipedia, Robert S. Desowitz was a researcher of tropical medicine, parasites, and malaria, and an author. Life and career Desowitz was born in New York, where he attended Niagara Falls High School. He served in the United States Army from 1944 to 1946. He received a bachelor's degree from the University at Buffalo in 1948. He earned a double doctorate in parasitology and medical biology from the University of London in 1951.

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Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of antibody to cysticerci of Taenia solium. (1982) (102)
The malaria capers : more tales of parasites and people, research and reality (1991) (81)
Plasmodium falciparum-specific immunoglobulin G (IgG), IgM, and IgE antibodies in paired maternal-cord sera from east Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (1993) (80)
Studies on immunity and host-parasite relationships. I. The immunological response of resistant and susceptible breeds of cattle to trypanosomal challenge. (1959) (69)
ELISA antibodies to cysticerci of Taenia solium in human populations in New Guinea, Oceania, and Southeast Asia. (1981) (61)
Studies on Trypanosoma vivax. IV. The maintenance of a strain in white rats without sheep-serum supplement. (1953) (57)
Antibodies to canine helminth parasites in asthmatic and nonasthmatic children. (1981) (55)
A simplified membrane filtration technique for the diagnosis of microfilaremia. (1970) (54)
The chemical composition of trypanosomes. I. Protein, amino acid and sugar analysis. (1961) (51)
Studies on Trypanosoma vivax. I. Susceptibility of white rats to infection. (1951) (50)
Hyperendemic bancroftian filariasis in the Kingdom of Tonga: the application of the membrane filter concentration technique to an age-stratified blood survey. (1974) (50)
Placental Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia in East Sepik (Papua New Guinea) women of different parity: the apparent absence of acute effects on mother and foetus. (1992) (49)
The radioallergosorbent test (RAST) for the serological diagnosis of human anisakiasis. (1985) (49)
The sites of deep vascular schizogony in Plasmodium coatneyi malaria. (1969) (48)
Studies on Trypanosoma vivax. III. Observations on the maintenance of a strain in white rats. (1952) (47)
Plasmodium-specific immunoglobulin E in sera from an area of holoendemic malaria. (1989) (46)
Prenatal immune priming in malaria: antigen-specific blastogenesis of cord blood lymphocytes from neonates born in a setting of holoendemic malaria. (1988) (45)
Effect of selenium and dimethyl dioctadecyl ammonium bromide on the vaccine-induced immunity of Swiss-Webster mice against malaria (Plasmodium berghei) (1980) (42)
Prophylactic Activity of Suramin Complexes in Animal Trypanosomiasis (1956) (38)
Pregnancy Malaria Throughout History: Dangerous Labors (2001) (34)
The detection of antibodies in human and animal filariases by counterimmunioelectrophoresis with Dirofilaria immitis antigens (1976) (34)
Plasmodium berghei: immunologic enhancement of antigen by adjuvant addition. (1975) (33)
Immunoglobulin complex deposits in Plasmodium falciparum-infected placentas from Malawi and Papua New Guinea. (1993) (33)
Entamoeba polecki and other intestinal protozoa in Papua New Guinea Highland children. (1986) (28)
Malaria in the Maprik area of the Sepik region, Papua New Guinea: 1957-1984. (1987) (27)
Anthelmintic activity of pyrantel pamoate. (1970) (26)
THE MEASUREMENT OF ANTIBODY IN HUMAN MALARIA BY A FORMOLIZED TANNED SHEEP CELL HAEMAGGLUTINATION TEST. (1964) (26)
Larval Ascaridoid Nematodes from Fishes near the Hawaiian Islands, with Comments on Pathgenicity Experiments (1982) (24)
Comparative studies on the pathology and host physiology of malarias. I. Plasmodium coatneyi. (1967) (24)
Anisakis simplex and Terranova sp.: inhibition by larval excretory-secretory products of mitogen-induced rodent lymphoblast proliferation. (1983) (23)
Studies of filariasis in the Pacific. 2. The persistence of microfilaraemia in diethylcarbamazine treated populations of Fiji and Western Samoa: diagnostic application of the membrane-filtration technique. (1973) (23)
Effect of Antibody on the Respiratory Rate of Trypanosoma vivax (1956) (22)
Characterization of a model of malaria in the pregnant host: Plasmodium berghei in the white rat. (1989) (21)
Plasmodium berghei: Enhanced Protective Immunity after Vaccination of White Rats Born of Immune Mothers (1971) (20)
ADAPTATION OF TRYPANOSOMES TO ABNORMAL HOSTS (1963) (20)
The maintenance of a strain of Trypanosoma simiae in rabbits: the effect of splenectomy on the course of infection. (1953) (20)
A perspective on malaria vaccines. (1980) (20)
Comparative studies on the pathology and host physiology of malarias. II. Gibbon malaria. (1967) (19)
Placental pathology in Plasmodium berghei-infected rats. (1992) (19)
Studies on immunity and host-parasite relationships. II. The immune response of antelope to trypanosomal challenge. (1960) (19)
Studies on Trypanosoma vivax. VI. The occurrence of antibodies in the sera of infected sheep and white rats, and their influence on the course of infection in white rats. (1953) (17)
Histopathology induced by larval Terranova (Type HA) (Nematoda: anisakinae) in experimentally infected rats. (1983) (17)
A vascular-permeability-increasing factor in the serum of monkeys infected with primate malarias. (1967) (17)
The application of the indirect haemagglutination test in recent studies on the immuno-epidemiology of human malaria and the immune response in experimental malaria. (1966) (17)
Observations on the metabolism of Trypanosoma vivax. (1956) (17)
Behavior and Viability of Third-Stage Larvae of Terranova sp. (Type HA) and Anisakis simplex (Type I) Under Coolant Conditions. (1984) (16)
Laboratory meeting: Singapore, January 19, 1962 (1962) (16)
Two cases of Plasmodium ovale malaria from central Thailand. (1969) (16)
Age as a factor influencing fatal infections of histomoniasis in chickens. (1951) (15)
Studies on parasitic crisis in malaria: I. Signs of impending crisis in Plasmodium berghei infections of the white rat. (1977) (15)
The influence of temperature on the length of the developmental cycle of Trypanosoma vivax in Glossina palpalis. (1955) (15)
Observations on the Heptocystis of the White-Cheeked Gibbon (Hylobates concolor) (1970) (15)
Plasmodium berghei: deep vascular sequestration of young forms in the heart and kidney of the white rat. (1976) (14)
The incidence of intestinal parasites in various communities of Singapore Island. (1961) (14)
Observations on the application of counterimmunoelectrophoresis for the seroepidemiology of human cysticercosis. (1977) (14)
Studies on Trypanosoma Vivax (1953) (13)
Serological cross-reactivities between the retroviruses HIV and HTLV-1 and the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. (1998) (13)
Who gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? : torrid diseases in a temperate world (1997) (13)
THE APPLICATION OF THE HAEMAGGLUTINATION TEST TO A STUDY OF THE IMMUNITY TO MALARIA IN PROTECTED AND UNPROTECTED POPULATION GROUPS IN AUSTRALIAN NEW GUINEA. (1965) (13)
Studies on filariasis in the Pacific. 4. The application of the membrane filter concentration technique to a survey of Wuchereria bancrofti filariasis in Kepu district, Jakarta, Indonesia. (1975) (13)
Rapid decrease of precipitating and reaginic antibodies in Dirofilaria immitis-infected dogs which develop severe adverse reactions following treatment with diethylcarbamazine. (1978) (12)
Prenatal immune hypersensitization to malaria: Plasmodium falciparum-specific IgE antibody in paired maternal and cord sera from Papua New Guinea. (1992) (12)
The transmission of Brugia sp. through Culex pipiens fatigans. The effect of age and prior non-infective blood meals on the infection rate. (1962) (11)
Antigenic relationships between polymorphic and monomorphic strains of the Brucei group trypanosomes. (1961) (11)
Studies on filariasis in the Pacific. 5. Brugia malayi filariasis in treated and untreated populations of South Borneo. (1975) (11)
Enterohepatitis(blackhead) of turkeys. (1950) (11)
Human and experimental anisakiasis in the United States. (1986) (11)
Observations on the adverse reaction to diethylcarbamazine in Dirofilaria immitis-infected dogs. (1981) (11)
Plasmodium berghei: renal function and pathology in mice. (1968) (11)
THE DEVELOPMENT AND SURVIVAL OF THE BLOOD-STREAM FORMS OF TRYPANOSOMA CONORHINI IN CULTURE. (1963) (10)
Tropical Diseases from 50,000 BC to 2500 AD (1998) (10)
Studies on filariasis in the Pacific. 3. Comparative efficacy of the stained blood-film, counting-chamber and membrane-filtration techniques for the diagnosis of Wuchereria bancrofti microfilaraemia in untreated patients in areas of low endemicity. (1973) (10)
Some factors influencing the induction, maintenance and degree of maternally transmitted protective immunity to malaria (Plasmodium berghei). (1973) (10)
Decrease in litter size of female mice with Toxocara canis. (1990) (10)
Bancroftian filariasis in an isolated hunter-gatherer shifting horticulturist group in Papua New Guinea. (1993) (9)
Inhibition of the adverse reaction to diethylcarbamazine in Dirofilaria immitis-infected dogs by lodoxamide ethyl. (1982) (9)
Perinatal immune priming in malaria: antigen‐induced blastogenesis and adoptive transfer of resistance by splenocytes from rats born of Plasmodium berghei infected females (1985) (9)
Hyperendemic subperiodic Bancroftian filariasis: a search for clinical and immunological correlates of microfilaraemia. (1976) (9)
Who gave pinta to the Santa Maria (1980) (8)
The Comparative Pathophysiology of Malarias (1967) (8)
Comparative studies on the pathology and host physiology of malarias. VI. Plasmodium inui. (1968) (8)
Denaturant effect of basic trypanocidal drugs on the protein of cell-free trypanosomal extracts. (1960) (7)
Studies on the immuno-epidemiology of parasitic infections in New Guinea. I. Population studies on the relationship of a skin test to microfilaraemia. (1966) (7)
A survey for intestinal parasites in Oahu schoolchildren. (1975) (6)
Animal models of malaria of pregnancy: setting a good example. (2001) (6)
The pathophysiology of malaria after Maegraith. (1987) (6)
Milestones and Millstones in the History of Malaria (1999) (6)
The First Record of Human Infection with Bertiella studeri in Malaya (1961) (6)
Ova and parasites: Medical parasitology for the laboratory technologist (1980) (6)
The malaria vaccine: seventy years of the great immune hope. (2000) (6)
Who Gave Pinta to the Santa Maria? Torrid Diseases in a Temperate World. (1998) (6)
Plasmodium falciparum in Mus musculus (1966) (5)
Malaria: from quinine to the vaccine. (1992) (5)
The absence of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes in the placental blood of a woman with a peripheral parasitaemia. (1992) (5)
Plasmodium berghei in the white rat: severe malaria of pregnancy does not occur in the progeny of mothers infected during gestation. (1999) (5)
Immunoblot characterization of IgG, IgM and IgE antibodies elicited during the course of fatal and non-fatal infections of Plasmodium berghei in DBA/2 and Balb/c mice. (1997) (5)
Description of a third-stage larva, Terranova type Hawaii A (Nematoda: Anisakinae), from Hawaiian fishes. (1984) (5)
Comparative studies on the pathology and host physiology of malarias. 3. Plasma free fatty acids in normal and malarious gibbons (Hylobates lar). (1967) (4)
The immune response of guinea-pigs to Necator americanus larval antigen: antigenic analysis by agar diffusion and measurement of antibody by the respiratory test. (1962) (4)
Paper Electrophoresis of Trypanosomal Extracts (1959) (4)
FATE OF TRANSPLANTED THIRD-STAGE BRUGIA PAHANGI LARVAE IN NORMALLY SUSCEPTIBLE AND NONSUSCEPTIBLE MOSQUITO HOSTS. (1965) (4)
Studies on Trypanosoma vivax. X. The activity of some blood fractions in facilitating infection in the white rat. (1954) (4)
The results of a stool and skin test survey for schistosomaisis in villages near the Mekong River of North-East Thailand (1967) (4)
Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus (2004) (3)
Comparative studies on the pathology and host physiology of malarias. IV. Serum protein alterations in Plasmodium coatneyi malaria: A comparison of cellulose acetate and polyacrylamide disc electrophoretic patterns. (1968) (3)
Evaluation of a simplified membrane filtration technique for the diagnosis of canine filariasis. (1970) (3)
The fate of sporozoites. (2000) (3)
Antigen specific and concanavaiin A‐induced lymphocyte blastogenesis responses during the course of Plasmodium berghei infection in rats (1984) (3)
Suramin complexes. II. Prophylactic activity against Trypanosoma vivax in cattle. (1957) (3)
Review of research in parasitology in Singapore. (1963) (3)
Protozoan Hyperparasitism of Heterakis gallinæ (1950) (3)
Protozoan hyperparasitism of Heterakis gallinae. (1950) (3)
Antiparasite chemotherapy. (1971) (3)
Developmental Changes in the Protein Constitution of a Mosquito (Armigeres subalbatus) as Revealed by Disc Electrophoresis (1969) (2)
Studies with Brugia pahangi. 16. Precipitation antibody in infected cats detected by counterimmunoelectrophoresis (1978) (2)
The occurrence of an adverse reaction to chloroquine in Dirofilaria immitis-infected dogs. (1983) (2)
The worm-asthma controversy. (1980) (2)
Hypocholesterolemia in rodent malaria (Plasmodium berghei). (1968) (2)
The incidence of intestinal parasites in some populations of New Guinea-some preliminary observations on indirect haemagglutination titres with Ancylostoma caninum antigen. (1967) (2)
HTLV-I antibody studies in villagers in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (2005) (1)
Silent travellers (1994) (1)
A comparison of counterimmunoelectrophoresis and indirect haemagglutination tests for the immunoepidemiological investigation of kala-azar. (1985) (1)
Kala-azar: the long anguish of the black sickness. (1992) (1)
Antiparasitic mechanisms in parasitic infections. (1970) (1)
Visiting the virus veteran. Interview by Philip Siekman. (2002) (1)
Journals of our plague years (1997) (1)
Parasites in Human Tissues: by Thomas C. Orihel and Lawrence R. Ash. 386 pages, hardbound. ASCP Press, Chicago, 1994. $165 (1995) (1)
The amino-acids of Necator americanus filariform larvae. (1962) (1)
Studies on Trypanosoma vivax. VII. The course of infection of an unsupplemented line in white rats, and the influence upon it of a diet of cow's milk and vitamins. (1953) (1)
The Effects of Herbicides in South Vietnam. Part B. Working Papers: Epidemiological-Ecological Effects: Studies on Intact and Deforested Mangrove Ecosystems, (1974) (1)
Serological techniques in parasitology--some comments by a devil's advocate. (1966) (1)
Yesterday's malaria wars (1996) (1)
Proceedings: Preliminary observations on countercurrent immuno-electrophoresis of Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania. (1975) (1)
Proceedings: The nature of the adverse reaction to diethylcarbamazine treatment in dogs infected with Dirofilaria immitis. (1975) (1)
Clinical giardiasis on Maui. (1981) (0)
Introduction of the President, Louis H. Miller* (1990) (0)
Coming plagues? (1994) (0)
Separation of P. Berghei antigens by disc electrophoresis. (1966) (0)
The Fate of Merozoites (2001) (0)
How Are the Mighty Fallen (2005) (0)
Federal bodysnatchers and the New Guinea virus : people, parasites, politics (2002) (0)
Lymphocyte subsets in two cases of acute malaria of pregnancy and in cases of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in western Thailand. (1989) (0)
A STUDY ON THE NATURAL HISTORY OF IMMUNITY TO MALARIA IN PROTECTED AND UNPROTECTED POPULATIONS OF AUSTRALIAN NEW GUINEA. (1964) (0)
Book Review: Parasites in the Immunized Host: Mechanisms of Survival (1975) (0)
Review of Decentralization in a Developing Country: The Experience of Papua New Guinea and Its Health Service, edited by Jane A. Thomason, William C. Newbrander, and Riita-Liisa Kolehmainen-Aitken (1993) (0)
Manson’s Tropical Diseases, 21st Edition (2004) (0)
Inhibition of the adverse reaction to diethylcarbamazine in Dirofilaria immitis-infected dogs by diazepam. (1984) (0)
Studies on filariasis in New Guinea. Observations on periodicity. (1966) (0)
Haemagglutination tests in malaria and toxoplasma: observations on sedimentation patterns. (1966) (0)
Biotechnology and visceral leishmaniasis in the World Health Organization's Southeast Asian region: research and reality. (1988) (0)
The uses and limitations of serology in ihe diagnosis of helminthic infections. (1967) (0)
Another perspective on malaria vaccines (1982) (0)
Contents, Vol. 65, 1981 (1981) (0)
A Biometric Study of Filariasis 'Wuchereria Bancrofti' in the South Pacific Area for Application to a Disease Forecasting System. (1976) (0)
Out of Africa (1997) (0)
Introduction of Leonardo J. Mata as Charles Franklin Craig Lecturer for 1973 (1975) (0)
The oxygen consumption of Plasmodium berghei in the presence of normal rat serum, immune rat serum and chloroquine sulfate. (1965) (0)
Dirofilaria immitis infection and asthma in PNG. (1984) (0)
Another perspective on malaria vaccines (1982) (0)
Viruses Without Frontiers. (1997) (0)
The Power of Plagues (2006) (0)

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