Amico Bignami
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Amico Bignami was an Italian physician, pathologist, malariologist and sceptic. He was professor of pathology at Sapienza University of Rome. His most important scientific contribution was in the disc
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Giuseppe Bastianelli
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Giuseppe Bastianelli was an Italian physician and zoologist who worked on malaria and was the personal physician of Pope Benedict XV.
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…notably fever periodicity). They observed that malignant malaria was caused only by the parasite species causing aestivo-autumnal malaria. With Giuseppe Bastianelli, he discovered that in malarial patients, it was the young (early staged) Plasmodium that caused fevers, but not the old crescent forms (gametocytes…
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G. Bastianelli. Photograph. Wellcome V0027738
Original copy of book on the Institute of Malariology