Eponyms in Tuberculosis

Nora Mohammed Al-Aboud

College of Applied Sciences, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi-Arabia

Corresponding author: Dr. Nora Mohammed Al-Aboud, E-mail: amoa65@hotmail.com

Submission: 22.09.2015; Acceptance: 06.12.2015
How to cite this article: Al-Aboud NM. Eponyms in Tuberculosis. Our Dermatol Online. 2016;7(3):355-358
DOI: 10.7241/ourd.20163.98

Tuberculosis (TB) is an old disease and the most common cause of infection-related death worldwide. In 1993, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared TB to be a global public health emergency.

There are several eponyms related to TB. Some of these eponyms are rarely used in the present time. For example some medical dictionaries mention about “Lorenz sign”, which is an obsolete term for stiffness of the thoracic spine in early pulmonary tuberculosis. Named after, Adolf Lorenz (1854 – 1946) (Fig. 1), who was an Austrian surgeon [1].

Figure 1: Adolf Lorenz (1854-1946).
Figure 2: Ernest Bazin (1894-1964).
Figure 3: Frederick Roland George Heaf (1894-1973).
Figure 4: Charles Mantoux (1877-1947).
Figure 5: Robert Heinrich Herman Koch (1843-1910).
Figure 6: Clemens Peter Freiherr von Pirquet (1874-1929).

Figure 7: Florence Barbara Seibert (1897-1991).
Figure 8: Sir Percivall Pott (1714-1788).
Figure 9: Fritz Valdemar Rasmussen (1837-1877).
Figure 10: Franz Ziehl (1857-1926).
Figure 11: Friedrich Carl Adolf Neelsen (1854-1898).

One may find little information in the literature about the origin of some of the eponyms related to tuberculosis. An example of this is “Löwenstein-Jensen” media used for TB culture.

In Table I, we tried to summarize the available literature for selected eponyms linked to TB.

Table 1: Selected eponyms in tuberculosis

 

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Conflict of Interest: None declared.

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