| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Authors: | P. Weindling |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pagination: | 81 - 90 |
| Date Published: | 1995 |
| ISBN Number: | 0391-9714 |
| Keywords: | animals, Austria, Chick Embryo, Comparative Study, Dog Diseases, France, Germany, history, humans, Japan, Lice/immunology, mice, Poland, Rabbit, rat, Rickettsia prowazekii/immunology, Rickettsia/classification/immunology, Rickettsial Vaccines/history, Russia, typhus, war |
| Abstract: | This paper provides an overview of the development of typhus vaccines between the first and second world wars. It is shown that there was a shift in the classification of the causal Rickettsiae from being classed as bacteria to being conceptualised as a type of virus. This 'paradigm switch' stimulated interest in the possibility of producing an effective medicine. |