Henrique da Rocha Lima
Henrique da Rocha Lima was a Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist born in Rio de Janeiro. With his friend, Stanislaus von Prowazek, he described what would later be known as Rickettsia prowazekii, the pathogen of epidemic typhus. Rocha Lima named the organism after Prowazek and American bacteriologist Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871-1910).
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Male
Date of Birth
November 24th, 1879
Age
146
Birth Place
Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Date of Death
April 26th, 1956
Died Aged
76
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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