1. Aldo Castellani is best remembered as discoverer of the etiology of sleeping sickness and Yaws, as a pioneer in the development and use of combined vaccines.
13 Facts About Aldo Castellani
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Aldo Castellani worked for a time in Bonn and joined the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London in 1901.
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Aldo Castellani demonstrated the cause and means of transmission of sleeping sickness, discovered the spirochete of yaws, and did other original work in bacteriology and in parasitic diseases of the skin.
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Aldo Castellani invented the absorption test for the serological identification of closely allied organisms.
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Aldo Castellani left Ceylon in 1915 for Naples where he took the Chair of Medicine.
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Aldo Castellani was involved during World War I in Serbia and Macedonia as a member of the Inter-Allied Sanitary Commission.
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In 1919 Aldo Castellani went to London as Consultant to the Ministry of Pensions.
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Aldo Castellani became lecturer on mycology and mycotic diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and established a consulting practice in Harley Street.
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Aldo Castellani was knighted in 1928 as an Honorary KCMG and in 1934 his daughter Jacqueline Castellani married Sir Miles Lampson.
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Aldo Castellani was President of the International Society of Dermatology from 1960 to 1964, which he had founded in 1959.
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Aldo Castellani was professor of tropical medicine at the State University of Louisiana and at the Royal University of Rome.
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Aldo Castellani followed the Queen of Italy Marie Jose into exile in Portugal and ended his life as Professor at Lisbon's Institute of Tropical Medicine.
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Aldo Castellani's paint is still occasionally used to treat fungal skin infections.