Skip to content
+386 1 546 83 93info@sanitarc.si
Wiki Sanitarc.si
Wiki Sanitarc.si
  • HOME
  • About Historia Sanitaria
  • Editorial board
  • CONTACT US
 
  • HOME
  • About Historia Sanitaria
  • Editorial board
  • CONTACT US

Daily Archives: 8. 4. 1897

You are here:
  1. Home
  2. 1897
  3. April
  4. 08

1897 – Transmission of malaria by the Anopheles mosquito discovered

1899 - 1800, United KingdomBy Editor8. 4. 1897

On 20 August 1897, in Secunderabad, Ronald Ross made his landmark discovery. While dissecting the stomach tissue of an anopheline mosquito fed four days previously on a malarious patient, he found the malaria parasite and went on to prove the role of Anopheles mosquitoes in the transmission of malaria parasites in humans. For this discovery Sir Ronald…

Vse pravice pridržane © 2016