Could any one help me to find "History of using animal models in parasitology"?

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Peter Wenk Popular answer

Ronald Ross exposed crows and doves harboring Haemoproteus columbae to mosquitoes as a model for Plasmodium in order to investigate the development to the infective stage.

G. Olpp (1932) Hervorragende Tropenärzte in Wort und Bild. Verl.ärztl. Rundschau Otto Gmelin, München 1932.

Wiritten in German. However, it is is the most detailled informative book I ever detected on the history of tropical medicine. For example: Ross covers 9 pages. It starts with Agramonte and ends with Ziemann and covers any person famous for research in infective medicine.

Peter Wenk

W.D. Foster (1963) A History of Parasitology. E. & S. Livingstone Ltd Edinbugh and London gives the milestones in the history of the most important parasitoses of human.

Animal models for screenig chemicals for pharmacological purpuses were used from about the 1930 ... I guess, when they had to replace in vitro tests for effectivity. This was a general reaction when the cancerogenic effectivity of the "butter yellow" was detected. After that time no licence was to obtain without proof in vivo.

Negin Torabi

Thank you very much for interesting and helpful answer. I have a training session for my students about animal models in parasitology, here we use BALB/c mice for cutaneous leishmaniasis, hamsters for VL, DBA or BALB/c for hydatidosis and souri mice for toxoplasmosis more. but to start teaching i need a history. now i think i find what i want!

thanks again

Clive J Shiff

Thanks to Prof Peter Wenk for the information. Historical information is important as the real discoveries were often glossed over by modern reviews!