TY  - JOUR
T1  - TRansmission of malarial fever in the canal zone by anopheles mosquitoes
AU  - DARLING ST
Y1  - 1909/12/18
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.92550250001001a
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 2051
EP  - 2053
VL  - LIII
IS  - 25
N2  - It is between eleven and twelve years since Ronald Ross conducted his famous experiments demonstrating the transmission of malarial fever by mosquitoes. This demonstration, it seems to me, has contributed more to the forging of the key to the control of the tropics than any other one in the annals of tropical medicine, for Ross' discovery focused the attention of the medical world on the part played by suctorial invertebrates in the transmission of infectious diseases. Knowledge of this doctrine of the insect intermediary host, coupled with Dr. H. R. Carter's invaluable observation of the extrinsic period of incubation, enabled the yellow fever commission to verify Finlay's notion about the transmission of yellow fever by stegomyia mosquitoes.The application of these two discoveries, Ross' and Reed's, to the problems of preventive medicine by your President-elect has made yellow fever a historic disease in Panama and is surely reducing the
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.92550250001001a
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550250001001a
ER  -