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Battista Grassi

By EmilianoVidania

  • Born

  • Began to study malaria in birds at Catania, in collaboration with the clinician Riccardo Feletti.

  • “Ueber die Parasiten der Malaria”

    He published the monograph “Ueber die Parasiten der Malaria” in Zentralblatte für Bakteriologie und Parasitenkunde (Grassi & Feletti, 1890, 1891a, b), in which he described the malarial cycle in different species of birds, such as owl, pigeon, and sparrow.

  • Grassi announced to the Lincei Academy that, in collaboration with Bignami and Bastianelli, he had infected a “volunteer” by exposing him to the bite of these three mosquito species

  • Grassi and his colleagues reported that a healthy man in a non-malarial zone had contracted tertian malaria after being bitten by an experimentally infected Anopheles claviger

  • In a second communication sent to the Lincei Academy (Grassi Bastianelli & Bignami, 1899), the entire developmental cycle of plasmodium in the body of Anopheles claviger was described.

    In addition, it was stated that the findings corresponded to what Ross had reported for Proteosoma in Culex pipiens in the malarial cycle of birds.

  • “Studies on Malaria by a Zoologist”, was published in the Memoirs of the Royal Lincei Academy.

    The article consisted of 200 large-format pages in which Grassi summarized the four years of research, from 1896 to 1899, and underlined the originality of his contribution by defining himself as a zoologist.

  • Dies