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4. Gilbert Dalldorf
4. Gilbert Dalldorf
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The creativity of his mind was perhaps best exemplified by his famous discovery of the Coxsackie viruses for which he used newborn mice as the vehicle for their isolation. In carrying out these experiments, he cliscovere(1 viruses that often mimic mild or nonparalytic poliomyelitis.
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Dalldorf became restless and eventually transferred to New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical School, from which he gracluated in 1924 with a medical degree. The architect of his move to New York had been Dr.
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Upon graduation from medical school, Dr. DalIdorf took a one-year rotating internship at the Norwegian Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.
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Mary Butler Kirkbride. The senior staff wrote a book entitled Standard Methods, first published in 1~927, which subsequently became almost a bible for public health laboratories.
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The poliomyelitis studies, performed in collaboration with Grace Sickles, led directly to the premier discovery that was subsequently made by DalIdorf and his various coliaborators. His earlier work with monkeys had demonstrated that lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (a contaminant of a distemper virus preparation)
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. The discovery of the Coxsackie viruses stimulated many virologists to use this system and ultimately resulted in the isolation of a large number of other enteric and nonenteric viruses, including mouse leukemia viruses and other oncogenic agents.
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His major awards included the Harold I Fisher Memorial Award to a Civil Service Leader in 1951; the Scientific Achievement Award of New York University Alumni Association in 1955; the Albert Lasker Award for Medical Research from the American Public Health Association in 1959; the Medical Achievement Award of the Golden Slipper Square Club in Philadelphia, 1961; and the medal of the New York Academy of Medicine in 1964.
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Ms. Sexton supplied valuable personal insight into the character and achievements of Dr.
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Incidence of gastric ulcer in albino rats fed diets deficient in vitamin B (B)
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244:868-73. The sparing effect of Coxsackie virus infection on experimental poliomyelitis.
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Malignant lymphomas of African children.
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